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Erynne M. Gilpin
Erynne Gilpin (Ph.D.) is a mixed (Saulteaux Cree-Métis and Filipina/Celtic) community wellness researcher, educator, birth-doula and film-maker. She recently completed her Ph.D. of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria (2020) in a project entitled ‘Land as Body: Indigenous Womxn’s Leadership, Wellness and Embodied Governance’ and will begin Post-Doctoral Research appointment in September of 2020 at the Centre of Indigenous Led Research and Community Led Engagement. Her recent research focuses include: Inter-national Indigenous relations, Indigenous wellness pedagogy, Land-based leadership and governance, storied-film education and ‘embodied governance, insurgent healing, and land/water-based wellness.’ Her future work centres Inter-National (Canada–Guatemala–Brazil) Indigenous relations through the centring of traditional birth work and place-based knowledge as governance. Her current work as co-founder of UATÊ//STORIED LEARNING employs mixed-media and film storytelling methods as viable pathways of self-determination and community-based knowledge mobilization. She also works a community Birth-Doula and is the founder of Indigenous Womxn Climb.
Contact: University of Victoria, 245 Meadowbrook Road, Victoria, BC V9E 1J5, Canada.