Virtual Event: "Ish'kote Storytelling: Honouring Life and Storytelling"

Dr. Kathy Absolon is an Anishinaabe kwe from Flying Post First Nation. Her academic journey has been a pathway of unlearning, healing, re-learning and finding who she is as an Indigenous woman and what her place is in the academy. Her Anishinaabe name is Minogiizhigo kwe which translates to Shining Day Woman, the one who brings goodness and beauty to the day. Dr. Kathy Absolon is the Director of the Centre for Indigegogy and an Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Faculty of Social Work, Indigenous Field of Study.

Melissa Ireland is the Director of Indigenous Student Services at Wilfrid Laurier University. A Mississauga Ojibway woman with heritage from Curve Lake First Nation, Melissa oversees the Indigenous Student Centres; services and programs at the Waterloo and Brantford campuses. Melissa is also a proud Laurier alumna and a passionate student affairs professional with a desire to integrate Indigenous ways of seeing, being, doing and knowing within university systems.

Corri Daniels is a Cree sixties scoop survivor from Gordon First Nation in Treaty 4 Territory. As Indigenous Events Support Coordinator at Wilfrid Laurier University, Corri’s role includes organizing key flagship events such as the Indigenist Research Symposium, weekly soup lunches and planning Indigenous Education Week activities aimed at promoting Indigenous education to the campus and community.