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Dr. Susan D. Dion
Susan Dion is a Lenape-Potawatomi scholar with mixed Irish and Quebecois ancestry who has been working in the field of education for more than thirty years. Associate Vice President Indigenous Initiatives and Professor in the Faculty of Education at York University her research focuses on Indigenizing, Decolonizing and Realizing Indigenous Education, Urban Indigenous Education, and Indigenous Student Wellbeing. Dion is widely consulted by diverse community groups, workplaces, and institutions on developing methods for building more equitable, respectful relationships between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous people.
Dr. Kim Anderson
Dr. Kim Anderson (she/her) is a Métis writer, scholar and educator based at the University of Guelph where she is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Relationality and Storied Practice. Much of her work involves gender and Indigeneity. She has published seven books, including the single authored Life Stages and Native Women: Memory Teachings and Story Medicine (University of Manitoba Press, 2011) and A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood (Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2nd edition, 2016). Co-edited collections include Keetsahnak/ Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters (University of Alberta Press, 2018, co-edited with Maria Campbell and Christi Belcourt) and Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration (University of Manitoba Press, 2015, co-edited with Robert Innes). Her latest collaboration was with Rene Meshake for his memoir Injichaag, My Soul in Story (University of Manitoba Press, 2019).
Jackson Pind
Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Methodologies in Chanie Wenjack School of Indigenous Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario where he is currently the Indigenous lead for the Indigenous Course Requirement (INDG 1001/1002). His research primarily focuses on the history of Indian Day Schools in Canada and has worked with Curve Lake and Peguis First Nation on community oral history projects. He has also published on topics such as Anishinaabeg history, Indigenous education, and Climate Change.
Indsights Panel: Indigenous Perspectives in Higher Education
Dr. Jackson Pind is a co-panelist alongside Dr. Kim Anderson (University of Guelph) and Dr. Susan Dion.
July 30th, 2024 – 9:30-11:30am, ENW 101 and online via Zoom.