Dr. Bryanna Scott-Kay - Reconciliation through Metissage

Bryanna Scott is Métis, born and raised in Fort Frances, Ontario; the heart of Treaty 3. Bryanna left her community to attend post-secondary studies at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay where she has achieved a bachelor’s degree in sociology, an honours bachelor’s degree in social work, a master’s degree in public health and most recently a PhD in educational studies. She is currently employed at Lakehead University as the coordinator of Indigenous education programs in the Faculty of Education. She has taught at Lakehead in the Faculty of Education and in the Department of Indigenous Learning. She has taught at Trent University in the Child and Youth Studies program, and she has recently taught the Indigenous Methods course as part of the Indigenous Stream-Public Health degree at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.  In her spare time, she sits as the Treasurer of the Board at Shkoday Aboriginal Head Start and as a member of the Indigenous Education Committee with the Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board.  She has a 13-year First Nations daughter from Lake Helen First Nation.