Overview

 Current Appointment

University of Alberta

2021 - Present, Professor, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Policy Studies
2017–2021, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Policy Studies
2020–2021, Associate Director, Intersections of Gender, Office of the Vice President for Research & Innovation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada


Academic Credentials

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (June 2011)
Indigenous Peoples Education (IPE), Department of Educational Policy Studies
Dissertation: Cipenuk Red Hope: Weaving Policy Toward Decolonization & Beyond.  

Master of Education

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (June 1998)
Individualized Concentration on American Indian Education 

Bachelor of Arts

Department of Political Science, University of Maine, Orono, ME


University of Alberta Indigenous Scholars Conference, 2015

Citizenships

Penobscot Indian Nation, Maine, US
Tobique First Nation of Maliseet Peoples, New Brunswick, Canada
Community member of the Alexis Nakota Nation, Alberta, Canada


Career Experience

2011–2017, Assistant Professor, Indigenous Peoples Education
Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta 

2006-2010, Research Assistant & Community Liaison, Community University Research Alliance (CURA)
University of Alberta


Other Academic Appointments

2021, Adjunct Professor of Educational Leadership
University of Southern Maine, Department of Educational Leadership 

2018-2019, Libra Visiting Professorship, College of Education & Native American Studies
University of Maine 

2016-2017, Visiting Scholar, Muskie School of Policy Development
University of Southern Maine 

2015-2016, Visiting Scholar
MacEwan University, Office of the Provost 

2015-2016, Special Advisor on Aboriginal Education to Grand Chief Clayton Alexis of 18 Bands
Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations, Treaty Six Territories in Alberta 


History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived; but if faced with courage, need not be lived again

- Angelou (1993)