Service to the Faculty
- Member, Equity Studies in Education Committee (2017-Present)
- Member, Indigenous Education Reconciliation Council Committee (2015-Present)
- Application Reviewer (SFU ESE MEd & MA), Equity Studies in Education (2021-2021)
- Co-Organizer with Dr. Kumari Beck and Dr. Özlem Sensoy, Equity Studies in Education Spring Lecture Series & film launch (2020-2020)
- Member, Faculty of Education: Research Advisory Working Group (2020-2020)
- Faculty Mentor, Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium (2016-2016)
- Keynote speaker, Faculty of Education's First Annual Champions of Education Luncheon (2016)
- Orientation Day for Faculty Associates in Professional Development Day (2015)
- Co-presenter and organizer, Faculty Forum for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Recommendations (2015)
- Co-assistant, Gathering of the Salmon People for Professional Development Programs (2015)
- Member, Indigenous Education Advisory Council (2015–present)
Other Decolonizing and Indigenizing Graduate Program Development
- Faculty Mentor, SAGE SFU (2015-Present)
- Indigenous Methodologies Meaning-Making Workshop with Dr. Mark Fettes, Cultural Relevant Place Based Doctoral Cohort Writing Retreat, Faculty of Education (2019-2019)
- SFU Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies SAGE orientation and welcome to new Indigenous graduate students across the university (co-organized with Denver Lynxleg and Dr. Dara Kelly, Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement (SAGE) Program (August 2019-August2019)
Other Decolonizing Faculty Professional Development
- Co-Organizer, SFU Faculty of Education’s Faculty Retreat Visit to Sto:lo Nation Longhouse, Faculty of Education (2019-2019)
- Faculty Lead, Gathering of the Salmon People for Professional Development Programs, Faculty of Education (2019-2019)
- Faculty Lead, Indigenizing and Decolonizing Our Pedagogies for Faculty Associates in Professional Development Orientation with Kau’i Kellipio, Faculty of Education (2019-2019)
- Pilot Feedback Session with Sara Louise Turner, “Critical Understandings of Land & Water: Unsettling Place” with the Professional Development Program’s Senior Leadership Team, Faculty of Education (2019-2019)
- Co-assisted with the Gathering of the Salmon People for Professional Development Programs, Faculty of Education (2018-2018)
- Co-assisted with the Gathering of the Salmon People for Professional Development Programs, Faculty of Education (2015-2015)
- Presenter, Orientation Day for Faculty Associates in Professional Development Day, Faculty of Education (2015-2015)
Other Leadership
- Faculty Sponsor with Dr. Margaret McDonald, Curriculum & Instruction. Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw ME.d Instructional Team: Margaret McDonald, Kau’I Kellipio, Lisa Paulls, Michelle Pidgeon, and Jessie Williams, Curriculum & Instruction (2019-2021)
- Lead Indigenous faculty member, Education 400 course for the Professional Development Program (PDP) for the 2018 (inaugural year) and 2019 intake for the course. My leadership responsibilities included: mentoring a new Indigenous limited-term lecturer; co-planning Indigenous scholarly content for large group seminars; co-organizing the beginning of term longhouse & community visits to Skwxwú7mesh Nation & Xmθkwym Nation (for all 400 students); developing a longhouse protocol curriculum; arranging Indigenous knowledge-holder presentations and ceremonies; providing mentorship for non-Indigenous faculty members and faculty associates to Indigenize and decolonize their practices; mentoring PDP staff for community relationship building in Indigenous communities; financially overseeing of all Indigenous education programming for the course; delivering interdisciplinary large group lectures related to Indigenous content; collaborating as part of an interdisciplinary planning team member for all course content and activities; meeting with senior PDP leadership to discuss Indigenous education priorities and needs, Professional Development Program, Faculty of Education (2018-2019)