Boozhoo, aniin nindinawemaaganidog (greetings my relations).  Melanie nindizhinkaaz zhaaganaashimong.  I am called Melanie in English.  Waabishki Ogichidaakwenz Anang indigo Anishinaabemong, idash Waaba-anang Ikwe nindizhinikaz.  Those are my two spirit names, what I am called by the spirits in Anishinaabemowin (our original language).  Mooz nindoodem, I am moose clan. Aapiji nimiwendaan gakenimag indoodem.  Biigtigong Nishaabeg nindoonji.  Ketegaunseebee nindoonji idash Bawating nindayendaa noongom.  I come from Biigtigong Nishnaabeg and Ketegaunseebee (Garden River) First Nations.  I also come from Aroland and Couchiching First Nations.  I live in Bawating, at the rapids, known as Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario on Turtle Island (North America).  Anishinaabekwe indaa.  I am an Anishinaabe woman, I use she/her pronouns and I deeply respect LGBTQ2S+ peoples and communities.

 

Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig (SKG) indanokii.  I work at Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig as the Vice President of Indigenous Knowledge, Scholarship & Research.  I am the Founder and a Senior Fellow with the SKG/Anishinaabe Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab (IKS Lab).  At SKG I am responsible for developing the undergraduate and graduate programming.  We are a newly accredited Anishinaabe post secondary institution fulfilling Chief Shingwauk's vision of a teaching lodge.

 

I am also work with the Wolf Willow Institute for Systems Learning and the Presencing Institute.  I regularly guest lecture at Yale University and MIT and I am the Systems-Changer-in-Residence with the Canadian Association of Science Centres.  

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I am humbled and honoured to collaborate with a number of wonderful organizations who share my deep curiosity about the nature of consciousness, systemic design, and the sacred space in between things.  Through the revitalization of Anishinaabe gikendaasowin (our original ways of knowing) and Anishinaabemowin (our original ways of speaking) I am continually seeking Anishinaabe mino bimaadiziiwin (a good life).  Miigwech for listening.