Indigenous Initiatives

Senior Management

Amy Perreault

Amy Perreault

Amy Perreault
Senior Strategist, Indigenous Initiatives
amy.perreault@ubc.ca
604–827–4398

Amy is the Senior Strategist, Indigenous Initiatives at the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) at the University of British Columbia on the traditional and unceded territory of the Musqueam people. Amy is proudly Red River Métis, with mixed European ancestry. She was born in Thompson Manitoba but spent most of her childhood fishing, picking huckleberries, hiking and being on the land and water ways in the East and West Kootenay’s on the traditional territories and homelands of the Ktunaxa Nation. She holds an MLIS from the UBC School of Information, where she currently serves as adjunct faculty and oversees the First Nations Curriculum Concentration. Amy works with staff, faculty groups, training programs for teaching assistants, new faculty, and administrators, to support the development of a higher standard of professionalism in conducting discussions of Indigenous and other contentious social issues in curricular settings. Amy is a co-developer and researcher for the educational resource What I Learned in Class Today: Aboriginal Issues in the Classroom and manages the development of Indigenous Foundations. Work on these projects, as well as her own experience as an Indigenous student, staff and faculty member at UBC, clearly identify the complexities and challenges of classroom conversations involving contentious cross-cultural discussions, and in specific discourse around Indigenous curriculum.

 

Team (listed alphabetically)


Carissa Block – II

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Carissa Block
Educational Programs Coordinator
carissa.block@ubc.ca

 


Lauren Casey

Lauren Casey
Educational Consultant: Anti-Racist and Indigenous Initiatives
lauren.casey@ubc.ca

 


Hannah Coderre

Hannah Coderre
Educational Consultant: Curriculum and Student Development
hannah.coderre@ubc.ca

Hannah joined CTLT’s Indigenous Initiatives team in December 2020 as an Educational Consultant, Curriculum and Student Development. Hannah is proudly Métis, a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta, and of mixed European ancestry. She is from Treaty 8 territory, born in Grande Prairie, Alberta and is now grateful to be here on the traditional and unceded territory of the Musqueam people. Hannah works alongside our team and partner units to ensure that CTLT programming, resources, and support services centre Indigenous student experiences. She recently completed the Master of Education (SCPE) program at UBC, where she held the student position of SAGE Coordinator/Indigenous Graduate Student Mentor. Prior to UBC, she worked in the Calgary non-profit sector, supporting the capacity building of local organizations and was a coordinator of a community GED program.

 


Heather Commodore – II

Heather Commodore
Musqueam-UBC Resource Curation Manager
heather.commodore@ubc.ca

 


Janelle Kasperski – II

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Janelle Kasperski
Educational Consultant, Strategic Projects
janelle.kasperski@ubc.ca

 


Janey Lew

Janey Lew

Janey Lew, PhD
Senior Educational Consultant, Indigenous Initiatives
janey.lew@ubc.ca
604–827–0934

Janey joined CTLT’s Indigenous Initiatives team in August 2015 and is grateful to work and learn at UBC on the unceded, ancestral territories of the Musqueam people. As Senior Educational Consultant, Indigenous Initiatives, Janey supports faculty engagement and professional development on topics related to intersectional differences, social justice, and critical Indigenous studies in teaching and learning. Janey is an experienced facilitator in a variety of community and educational settings, and holds a PhD in Comparative Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining CTLT, Janey taught courses in the Asian American Studies Program at UC Berkeley, the English departments at Capilano University and Douglas College, and the First Nations Studies Programs at SFU and UBC.

 


Nathalie Lozano-Neira

Nathalie Lozano-Neira
Educational Consultant: Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning
nathalie.lozano-neira@ubc.ca


Nathalie Lozano Neira is from Muysca territory in Colombia. She came to live in the occupied and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Səl̓ílwətaɬ, and Skwxwú7mesh Nations 23 years ago as a settler refugee. For over 20 years Nathalie has been involved in migrant justice and decolonial justice organizing efforts. She has experience in facilitation, curriculum development and community-based feminist research. She is a doctoral student in the Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice Institute at UBC focusing on relationship building and relationality within Indigenous women grassroot collectives in Turtle Island (North America) and Abya Yala (Latin America). As the Anti-Racism Consultant, Nathalie provides professional development programming, design, facilitation, and consulting to the UBC teaching and learning community grounding the work in values and experiences of IBPOC communities through intersectional, anti-oppressive and decolonial approaches to pedagogy and design.
 


Samantha Nock

Samantha Nock
Educational Resource Developer: Indigenous Initiatives
sam.nock@ubc.ca

 


Shannon Robinson

Shannon Robinson
Educational Consultant: Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning
shannon.robinson@ubc.ca

 


Paulina Semenec

Paulina Semenec

Paulina Semenec, PhD
Evaluation Consultant
paulina.semenec@ubc.ca
604–827–5975

 


Kyle Shaughnessy

Kyle Shaughnessy

Kyle Shaughnessy
Educational Consultant: Staff Training, Indigenous Initiatives
kyle.shaughnessy@ubc.ca
604–827–4398

Kyle holds a joint position between HR Workplace Learning & Engagement and CTLT Indigenous Initiatives as Education Consultant: Staff Training, at the University of British Columbia, situated on the traditional and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. Kyle is a Two-Spirit, trans person of mixed Indigenous (Dene) and European (Irish & Ukrainian) ancestry, and is a social worker and writer originally from the Northwest Territories and rural BC. He holds an MSW from Dalhousie University and his professional background includes health education, institutional & systems change, Indigenous community engagement & cultural safety consultation, LGBT2Q+ advocacy, and Two-Spirit teaching & learning practices. Kyle’s role as Education Consultant: Staff Training is to provide consultation and support for staff (including teams and leadership) seeking to foster greater integration of Indigenous knowledges and perspectives in university programming and engagement strategies.

 


Erin Yun

Erin Yun

Erin Yun
Educational Consultant: Classroom & Campus Climate
erin.yun@ubc.ca
604-822-5153

Erin started at CTLT since being a graduate student in 2013 and is thankful to work and learn on the unceded and traditional territory of the Musqueam people. Erin supports and leads UBC teaching and learning community’s professional and capacity development in helping to create a classroom climate that is supportive to teaching and learning. She provides consultation, process design, facilitation, programming, and resource development services to faculty, staff, and graduate students, focused on difficult conversations related to classroom and campus climate, and Indigenous engagement within teaching and learning.