Guest Speakers 2025

Dr. Sabine Cadeau is a historian of Modern Latin America and the Caribbean at McGill University.  

Francis First Charger is the University of Lethbridge’s Elder in Residence. He has graciously offered to attend our opening ceremonies on May 9^th to offer us a blessing. 

Ms. Heather George, a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo, brings a strong research background to the role of Executive Director of the Woodland Cultural Centre. 

Dr. Kara Granzow is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Iniskim / the University of Lethbridge. 

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 University of Calgary.

Dr. Sarah Rose is an associate professor of history at the University 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 is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Queen’s University, and a research assistant with the Indigenous Hockey Research Network. 

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 unneeded territory of Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver).

Dr. Anna Sheftel is Principal and Associate Professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia University. 

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

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

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 is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Toronto Mississauga.

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