November 13, 2021

"Niigaaniiwin, the development of a Star Model for community driven research"

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Joey-Lynn Wabie is an Algonquin Anicinabe ikwe from Wolf Lake First Nation in Quebec. She is an assistant professor in Indigenous Social Work at Laurentian University located on Atikameksheng Anishnawbek territory (Sudbury, Ontario). She is also the interim director for the Maamwizing Indigenous Research Institute at Laurentian. Joey-Lynn works in communities at the grassroots level focusing on wellness, culture, and bringing people together. Her research interests are Indigenous youth's perspectives on identity, spiritual wellness/healing, and land-based teaching/learning. Joey- Lynn takes the role of sister, auntie, cousin seriously and is dedicated to ensuring her culture and traditions are passed on through storytelling, ceremony, and the occasional latte.
Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara's Swedish, Sámi, German, Scots-Irish, and English ancestors settled on lands of the Anishinaabe and Omaha Nations, which were unethically obtained by the US government. She considers herself to be both complicit in, and resisting, settler colonialism on lands occupied by the Canadian State. Her research focuses on the roles of settlers in decolonization. Liz is currently learning to live as a treaty relative of the Robinson-Huron Treaty on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe peoples. She is an active affiliate member for the Maamwizing Indigenous Research Institute at Laurentian and member of Niigaaniiwin. Liz is also an auntie, partner, sister, daughter, and a filmmaker with the Stories of Decolonization Film project.