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Dr. Amy Parent is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Education & Governance at Simon Fraser University (SFU). She has a deep commitment to advancing decolonization efforts within curriculum and instruction, serving as a member of the Indigenous Education Reconciliation Council. With ancestry spanning the Nisga’a Nation and settler backgrounds, she is dedicated to supporting Indigenous methodologies and community-driven self-determination. Her work emphasizes the revitalization of the Nisga’a language and comprehensively addressing educational governance policies. Dr. Parent has held positions at both SFU's Faculty of Education and the University of British Columbia, and she is the inaugural Associate Director of the Cassidy Centre for Educational Justice. Her research interests focus on practices that enhance capacity in Indigenous K-12 contexts and higher education, with an overarching goal of ensuring that Indigenous communities in British Columbia maintain control over their educational governance and research jurisdictions.
Department of Philosophy