National Indigenous History Month: SFU experts available

AVAILABLE SFU EXPERTS

GINGER GOSNELL-MYERS, fellow in decolonization and urban Indigenous planning, SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue  
gingergm@sfu.ca

• Urban Indigenous planning  
• Government policy (municipal/provincial/federal) 
• Decolonization 
• Public opinion of Indigenous issues

DOUG MCARTHUR, professor, public policy
 doug_mcarthur@sfu.ca

• Indigenous peoples and self-government, treaties, negotiations and resource issues
  

ALEXIA MCKINNON, director, Indigenous programs & sessional lecturer, business and society, Beedie School of Business 
alexia_mckinnon@sfu.ca

• Institutional change inclusive of an Indigenous worldview, including courses, procurement, right relationships with community, scholarships and economic reconciliation
• Inclusion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Call to Action #92 regarding business and reconciliation
  

LYANA PATRICK, assistant professor, health sciences 
lyana_patrick@sfu.ca

• Urban Indigenous community health and wellbeing 
• Indigenous film and storytelling innovations
  

ELDON YELLOWHORN,  professor, Indigenous studies
ecy@sfu.ca

• Archaeological methods in the search for residential school missing children, Indigenous language revitalization, contemporary intellectual property and traditional knowledge.
  

CONTACT 

MELISSA SHAW, SFU  Communications & Marketing 
236.880.3297 | melissa_shaw@sfu.ca

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