New Indigenous faculty

Professor Dara Kelly, of the Leq’á:mel First Nation, joined the Beedie School of Business in July 2018 and teaches in the Executive MBA program in Indigenous Business and Leadership. Her research interests focus on Indigenous economic development, ancestral leadership, Coast Salish freedom/unfreedom, and the Capabilities Approach, a theory developed by Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen that focuses on economic freedom based on the “lives we value, and have reason to value.”

Kelly holds a PhD in commerce from the University of Auckland Business School where she was a researcher at the Mira Szászy Research Centre for Māori and Pacific Economic Development. In addition to research, she has professional experience in leadership-development programming. She is currently developing a project that explores the spiritual relationship between humans and salmon from Indigenous perspectives. It is an approach to better understanding the fish farming industry’s impact on Indigenous communities, and their relationships with salmon as kin, “the humans who live in the ocean.”

Professor Natahnee Winder is Tsaidüka (Duckwater Shoshone), Diné, Cui Ui Ticutta (Pyramid Lake Paiute) and Nuucic (Southern Ute). Last fall, she has joined both the Department of First Nations Studies and the School of Public Policy. She holds BAs in sociology and in native American studies from the University of New Mexico, where she was a Ronald E. McNair and Research Opportunity Program scholar. At Yale University, she was the 2015-2016 Henry Roe Cloud pre-doctoral fellow. She joined SFU after completing a PhD in sociology at the University of Western Ontario. Her dissertation analysed the residential school histories of Canada and the United States based on the perspectives of Indigenous university students who participated usingPhotovoice. Her research interests include health and well-being, Indigenous education, ethnic and race relations, community-based participatory research, Indigenous research and qualitative research. She is currently teaching Indigenous policy.