exploring the sacred space between ...
Artwork by Carrianne Agawa, Artist-in-Residence with the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab
about me
I am an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) woman from Biigtigong Nishnaabeg and Ketegaunseebee First Nations. I am currently Vice President of Indigenous Knowledge, Scholarship & Research at Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig (SKG), an accredited Anishinaabe post-secondary institution in Bawating (at the rapids), Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. Our campus is located in the traditional territories of the Anishinaabeg peoples and the Three Fires Confederacy.
some of my story
Relational Systems Thinking
2021
The paper called Relational Systems Thinking, That's How Change is Going to Come, from Our Earth Mother (Goodchild, 2021) was published in the Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change and to date it has had over 75,000 downloads. It explores the sacred space between ideas that come together at the confluence of reductionist and holistic consciousnesses. From 2015 to 2022 I was a Research Fellow with the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation & Resilience (WiSIR).
Phd
2023
I graduated with a PhD in Social & Ecological Sustainability from the School of Environment, Resources & Sustainability (SERS) in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo in 2023 and was a University Finalist for the Alumni Gold Medal at the doctoral level. I also earned an HBA and MA in Sociology from Lakehead University, 2000 and 2004.
Indigenous KNowledge Systems Lab
2024
The Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab (IKS Lab) was founded in 2024 at Algoma University and now is hosted at Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig. I am the Founder and a Senior Fellow with the IKS Lab, a sibling entity to my relative Tyson Yunkaporta's IKS Lab at Deakin University in Australia.
