Indigenous Education Network Leadership Team
Dr. Jennifer Brant,
IEN Faculty Co-Chair
Title/Role at U of T:
- Faculty Co-Chair of the Indigenous Education Network
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
- Faculty Editor of Curriculum Inquiry
Research/Teaching Keywords: Indigenous literatures; Indigenous Maternal Pedagogies and Methodologies; and Ethical Spaces for Liberatory Praxis;
Why are you part of the Indigenous Education Network? She:kon Sewakwe:kon! I am part of this Indigenous Education Network because it is an integral space for Indigenous intellectual work on our campus; I see it as a space of togetherness that brings community visions forward. I have come to know it as a space of radical care, and ethical relationality. It is also a welcoming space for our families; one of my earliest memories with the IEN was bringing my youngest son to the Rock-Your-Mocs event in my first year at OISE. The IEN has also provided a nurturing space for the kind of work that gives back to our communities and this is what drives me as a faculty member. In recent years I have seen the IEN express its commitment to work that fosters Indigenous, Black, and Afro-Indigenous solidarities and I am moved by this commitment of togetherness. This is expressed in my own work toward anti-racist praxis. The IEN is a space where I can bring theory and practice together and become more involved with community organizing, social movements and the kind of work that tends to socio-political action.
Dr. Rosalind Hampton,
IEN Faculty Co-Chair
Title/Role at U of T:
- Faculty Co-Chair of the Indigenous Education Network
- Assistant Professor of Black Studies, Social Justice Education
Research/Teaching Keywords: Black Studies; Black radical thought; arts and critical-creative practice; student activism; critical pedagogies; anticolonial, anticapitalist solidarities
Why are you part of the Indigenous Education Network? Being part of the IEN provides me with opportunities for non-hierarchical collaboration with students, staff and fellow faculty within a context of generosity and care between and among Indigenous, Black-Indigenous and Black people. It is a site from which I continue to learn with and from Indigenous peoples and knowledges, and work with others to strengthen and further our collective efforts toward decolonization. Radical care is an ethical, political and pedagogical practice woven throughout the work of the IEN—in the programs and support provided to students, in our relationships with one another, and in our collaborations with colleagues and with community partners beyond the university.
Kayla Webber,
IEN Student Co-Chair
Title/Role at U of T:
- Student Co-Chair of the Indigenous Education Network
Alexis Daybutch,
IEN Coordinator
Title/Role at U of T:
- Coordinator of the Indigenous Education Network
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