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Dr. Robyn Bourgeois

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Vice-Provost, Indigenous Engagement; Associate Professor, The Centre for Women's and Gender Studies, Brock University

I am a a mixed-race Cree woman born and raised in Syilx and Splats'in territories in British Columbia, and connected through my children to Six Nations of the Grand River. I am an Indigenous feminist sociologist whose research focuses on violence against Indigenous women and girls, Indigenous women's political leadership, and Canadian state colonialism. I am also a survivor of sex trafficking and have examined this topic in relation to colonialism. In 2018, I testified as an experiential and expert witness at the National Inquiry. In addition to being an academic, I have been involved in the activism surrounding Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people for twenty years.

Experience

  • –present
    Vice-provost, Indigenous Engagement, Brock University
  • 2020–present
    Associate professor, Brock University

Education

  • 2014 
    University of Toronto, Doctorate, Social Justice and Equity Studies in Education
  • 2004 
    University of British Columbia, Master of Arts, Sociology
  • 2002 
    Okanagan University Colleege, Bachelor of Arts, Sociology