Enwayaang
A Series of Extraordinary Talks
Winter 2023
How University Leardership can Forge your Career Path
Jennifer Trotman
February 9th - 4: 00 pm (Online)
Jennifer Trotman made her university experience challenging and engaging inside and outside the classroom: she became one of the first resident dons at Gzowski and took on the first Cabinet President role and Introductory Experience Ambassador Co-chair position. Those early experiences set her on a path towards a career in residence life. She is now the Director of Campus Living at The University of Winnipeg, where she is responsible for all aspects of the Universities residences.
In this lecture she will talk about the leadership opportunities she took on as a student and the impact they had in her future career path.
Finding Purpose Beyond the University
Sarah Kastner
December 1st - 4:00 pm (Hybrid)
Dr. Sarah Kastner started her career at Trent University in 2006 and graduated with a degree in English Literature in 2010. During this time, she became a mother to two children and found a great deal of purpose in learning about the power of storytelling.
She went on to complete a Master's in the Public Texts (MA) at Trent and a PhD from the Department of English at Queen's University, where she wrote an award-winning dissertation on southern African life writing and personal archives. She was a visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town in 2017 and the recipient of the Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research as a Postdoctoral Fellow at York University in 2018.
In her current role as Director of Research and Knowledge Mobilization at a Public Relations and Communications agency in Ottawa, Sarah works with a number of national non-profit organizations to advance social justice and human rights mandates.
ing" pedagogy which creates the space for Indigenous and non-Indigenous learners to work towards becoming more whole human beings.
Fall 2022
Walking My Red Road
in an Effort to Find
my Forever Career
Maureen Greyeyes-Brant
October 5th - 4:00 pm (In-person)
Maureen Greyeyes-Brant completed her undergraduate degree in Native Studies with honours at Trent University in 1999.
She is a strong Plains Cree Saskatchewan woman from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation who has been welcomed and adopted into the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte located on the territory of Tyendinaga in Ontario. After her educational studies, Maureen joined the National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC) as a Policy Communication Intern.
She joined the RCMP as a regular member in February 2001 and up to 2007, Maureen gained invaluable experience as a general duty frontline member while posted in Swan River, Manitoba. From December 2007 to present day, Maureen has worked in many different RCMP units.
The Long and Winding Career or No Learning
is Ever Wasted
Jeff Hennessy
November 3rd - 4: 00 pm (Online)
Jeff Hennessy graduated from Trent University in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science with a major in Chemistry with a minor in The Commoner. He then pursued a second undergraduate degree in music at Acadia University and spent several years as a freelance musician and contract composer before attending UBC for a Master of Arts in Music Theory and then the University of Toronto for a PhD in Interdisciplinary Musicology.
He worked as a part-time instructor and sessional lecturer at Acadia University before being hired as a tenure-track musicologist and (in a strange twist of events) Director of the School of Music at the same time. He held this position for 6 years before becoming Dean of Arts for what was supposed to be a 1-year term, but which turned into 5 years.
He is now in his 3rd year as Provost and Vice President (Academic and Research) at Mount Allison University. He still writes and records music and plays in the country band The Sundries. His album “Still Waiting on a Fix” with the alternative pop group The Muddle has made nearly 30 dollars (and counting) in streaming royalties.
Braided Healing and Learning in Post-Secondary Education
Adam Hopkins
December 1st - 4:00 pm (Hybrid)
Adam Hopkins (Lunaapeew/Anishnaabe) graduated from Trent University in 2007 with a degree in Indigenous Studies and immediately began working at Trent as an Enrolment Advisor, then Student Success Coordinator and finally as the Director, First Peoples House of Learning. In 2017 he completed a master's degree from Queens University in Public Administration and is now the Senior Vice-President, Academic at FNTI (Formerly First Nations Technical Insititute), where he's been working since 2016.
FNTI is one of the largest Indigenous Institutes (II's) in Ontario, and since 2017, II's have been recognized through legislation as the third pillar of publicly assisted post-secondary institutions in the province.
Adam is excited to share his about his experiences in assisting to develop learner centered, community driven programming that is grounded in Indigenous knowledges. FNTI delivers programming across Ontario and is recognized for its "Intense Professional Mode" delivery, and "Braided Healing and Learning" pedagogy which creates the space for Indigenous and non-Indigenous learners to work towards becoming more whole human beings.
Adam currently lives in Warsaw, is married to a fellow a Trent alum (who is also an academic advisor at Trent) and is the proud father of Leighton and Mylene.