She completed her doctoral degree at OISE, at the University of Toronto based on her field work with two First Nation communities on the impacts of residential schools. She is currently the director of the Laurier Indigenous Rights and Social Justice Research Group and past director, and current board member of the Laurier Centre for Community Research Learning and Action. She was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Indigenous Studies at the Universidad de La Frontera, in Chile. Her research focuses on colonial trauma, indigenous rights, and governance issues. Bernard Taylor