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Are you an emerging Indigenous scholar* working at a Canadian university? Join Western University’s Dr. Candace Brunette-Debassige and Algoma University’s Mkomose (Dr. Andrew Judge) for the first of a series of webinars that centers the experiences of Indigenous faculty.
A question-and-answer session will follow presentations in this free event. Registered participants will receive a Zoom link prior to the event. Please feel free to share this invitation.
* Emerging Indigenous scholars are those in the first few years of their academic careers.
Speaker bios
Candace Brunette-Debassige
Candace Brunette-Debassige is a member of the Mushkegowuk Nation (Petabeck First Nation, Treaty 9) with Cree and French lineage. She is currently lives in London Ontario Canada homelands to the Anishnabek, Haudenausaunee and Lenapewak People where she works as an Assistant Professor and Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Education at Western University. Her research and professional practice centers on advancing the liberatory needs and struggles of Indigenous Peoples in Euro-Western colonial educational settings. Her scholarship and teaching focus on Indigenizing and decolonizing educational leadership and policy with a deep commitment to advancing Indigenous theorizing and Indigenous research methodologies.
Mkomose (Dr. Andrew Judge)
Mkomose (Dr. Andrew Judge) is an Assistant Professor of Anishinaabe Studies at Algoma University. He has Lectured at Sir Wilfrid Laurier University, The University of Waterloo, and Coordinated Indigenous studies at Conestoga College, where he established a network of Indigenous leaders to restore land. Mkomose specializes in Anishinaabe cultural knowledge, ethno-medicine, and land-based learning.
Mkomose has learned from, worked and consulted with, and served Indigenous Elders and community leaders for over a decade. He has founded several community-led Indigenous knowledge based programs at elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels and works tirelessly to promote Indigenous land-based sustainability practices.