My distinct tribal, cultural and familial background influenced my career in collaborative programming in education. It provided me with the foundation and the start to a career devoted to community empowerment, Indigenous Education, program development and policy implementation. Presently, I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Education in Bishop’s University. I join the faculty and staff to further support and compliment their work with Indigenous Education and support the future Teachers and students.
I am an enrolled member of the N. Cheyenne Nation in the USA and had the pleasure of growing up on the Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska. I am honored to live, work, serve, and do my best to live in right relationships with the Indigenous Communities & Nations in Quebec and Bishop’s University. I strive to honor our Tribal Nations/Indigenous Peoples ways of knowing as stewards to the land – past, present, and future. The concept of LAND is an interwoven into multiple parts of our daily existences. Here is to those powerful connections as we walk together in our various interdependent roles and inter-connected with the Land.
My research projects focus on Indigenous education, social justice in education and Indigenous Futurism. I have worked for many years in higher education in various student services and teaching capacities. My PhD is from the Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education Department in the College of Education & Human Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Throughout my career, I have worked to promote community action and find respectful solutions through scholarly research and programming.
My experiences enable me with key insight to advance concrete changes to community empowerment, co-create a new future in teacher education, program development, policy implementation and fundraising.