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DESCRIPTION:On May 15th from 1 - 2:30 PM\, join the Office of Indigenous In
 itiatives for a virtual panel featuring distinguished academics and Chairs
  of Indigenous Advisory Councils. In light of our active initiative of for
 ming 91ÉçÇř’s first Indigenous Advisory Council\, this is an opportunity t
 o learn more about the successes and challenges of these units within larg
 e institutions. This event is online\, please register before here. \n\n 
 \n\nMeet the Panellists \n\nCandace Brunette-Debassige\n\nCandace Brunette
 -Debassige is of the Mushkegowuk Cree Nation and member of Peetabeck (Alba
 ny) in Treaty 9 Territory with Cree and French settler lineage. Born and r
 aised in small town northeastern Ontario\, Candace now makes N’Swakamok (S
 udbury Ontario) her home where she works as an Assistant Professor in the 
 School of Indigenous Relations at Laurentian University. Candace has worke
 d in universities for over 25 years serving in various academic and admini
 strative leadership roles including Acting Vice Provost Indigenous Initiat
 ives\, Special Advisor to the Provost\, and Director of Indigenous Student
  Affairs at Western University. Candace’s scholarship centers on Indigenou
 s leadership and policy changes in higher education. She is the author of 
 Tricky Grounds a 2023 book focusing on Indigenous women’s leadership exper
 iences in postsecondary institutions. Tricky Grounds was awarded the 2021 
 George L. Geis dissertation of the year award by the Canadian Society for 
 Studies in Higher Education.\n\n \n\nSheila Cote-Meek  \n\nDr. Cote-Meek i
 s Anishinaabe from the Teme-Augama Anishnabai. She is currently Director a
 nd Professor of Indigenous Educational Studies at Brock University. She wa
 s the inaugural Vice-President\, Equity\, People and Culture at York Unive
 rsity where she led the development of the Decolonizing\, Equity\, Diversi
 ty and Inclusion (DEDI) strategy and York’s Black Inclusion Strategy. She 
 was the inaugural Associate-Vice-President\, Indigenous and Academic Progr
 ams at Laurentian University where she developed the Indigenous Sharing an
 d Learning Centre\, the Maamwizing Indigenous Research Institute and the M
 aster of Indigenous Relations. Dr. Cote-Meek is author of Colonized Classr
 ooms – Racism\, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education (2014) a
 nd three co-edited books: Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education in Canad
 a (2020)\, Critical Reflections and Politics on Advancing Women in the Aca
 demy (2020) and Perspectives on Indigenous Pedagogy in Education: Learning
  from One Another (2023).\n\n \n\nBrent Young\n\nDr. Brent Young is Anishi
 naabe and a member of Sandy Bay First Nation. His mother is a Sixties Scoo
 p Survivor\, and his grandmother was a survivor of Sandy Bay Indian Reside
 ntial School. He was born and raised in Unama’ki.\n\nHe is a family physic
 ian at Sipekne’katik Health Centre\, founding clinical lead of Wije’winen 
 Health Centre\, academic director for Indigenous health at Dalhousie Medic
 al School\, and treasurer of the board of directors at the Indigenous Phys
 icians Association of Canada. He co-chaired Dalhousie University’s Task Fo
 rce on Settler Misappropriation of Indigenous Identity. He has also contri
 buted to several national efforts to advance Indigenous health\, notably a
 s co-chair of the Anti-Racism Work Group with the National Circle of Indig
 enous Medical Education and as a member of the Indigenous Health Committee
 s with the Canadian College of Family Physicians and Association of Facult
 ies of Medicine of Canada.\n\nEstablishing and bolstering institutional st
 ructures for Indigenous-led decision-making has been a central component o
 f his work to advance Indigenous health.  \n
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SUMMARY:Bridging Wisdom: Indigenous Advisory Councils in Academia 
URL:/equity/channels/event/bridging-wisdom-indigenous-
 advisory-councils-academia-364928
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