Guest Speakers 2025

Dr. Sabine Cadeau
Dr. Sabine Cadeau is a historian of Modern Latin America and the Caribbean at McGill Ãâ·Ñ¸£Àû×ÊÔ´ÔÚÏß¿´Æ¬.

Francis First Charger
Francis First Charger is the Ãâ·Ñ¸£Àû×ÊÔ´ÔÚÏß¿´Æ¬ of Lethbridge’s Elder in Residence. He has graciously offered to attend our opening ceremonies on May 9th to offer us a blessing.

Heather George
Ms. Heather George, a PhD candidate at the Ãâ·Ñ¸£Àû×ÊÔ´ÔÚÏß¿´Æ¬ of Waterloo, brings a strong research background to the role of Executive Director of the Woodland Cultural Centre.

Dr. Kara Granzow
Dr. Kara Granzow is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Iniskim / the Ãâ·Ñ¸£Àû×ÊÔ´ÔÚÏß¿´Æ¬ of Lethbridge.

Dr. Alan Martino
Dr. Alan Martino (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in the Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies program in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Ãâ·Ñ¸£Àû×ÊÔ´ÔÚÏß¿´Æ¬ of Calgary.

Dr. Sarah Rose
Dr. Sarah Rose is an associate professor of history at the Ãâ·Ñ¸£Àû×ÊÔ´ÔÚÏß¿´Æ¬ of Texas at Arlington, where she founded and directs the Minor in Disability Studies and is a faculty advisor for the Texas Disability History Collection.

Jamie Ryan
Jamie Ryan is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Queen’s Ãâ·Ñ¸£Àû×ÊÔ´ÔÚÏß¿´Æ¬, and a research assistant with the Indigenous Hockey Research Network.

Dr. Joshua Schwab-Cartas
Dr. Joshua Schwab-Cartas is a mixed race Indigenous Binnizá-Austrian, father, filmmaker, and Indigenous language scholar activist and an assistant Professor at NSCAD born outside his ancestral community on the traditional and unceded territory of Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver).

Dr. Anna Sheftel
Dr. Anna Sheftel is Principal and Associate Professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia Ãâ·Ñ¸£Àû×ÊÔ´ÔÚÏß¿´Æ¬.

Dr. Cheryl Troupe
Dr. Cheryl Troupe is a citizen of the Métis Nation – Saskatchewan and a member of Gabriel Dumont Local #11 in Saskatoon.

Dr. Vanessa Watts
Dr. Vanessa Watts is Mohawk and Anishinaabe Bear Clan, Six Nations of the Grand River.

Dr. Winona Wheeler
Dr. Winona Wheeler is a member of the Fisher River Cree Nation in Treaty No. 5 territory (Manitoba) though her family hails from George Gordon’s First Nation in Treaty No. 4 territory (Saskatchewan).

Dr. Lucas Wilson
Dr. Lucas Wilson is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Ãâ·Ñ¸£Àû×ÊÔ´ÔÚÏß¿´Æ¬ of Toronto Mississauga.

Dr. Stacey Zembrzycki
Dr. Stacey Zembrzycki teaches in the Department of History and Classics at Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec.