Stephanie Tyler is a nisoyahk ohci (bi-racial) second-year PhD student with the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Social Work.
Her doctoral studies center on decolonizing social work education through the honoring and strengthening of Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing. She has spent the last eight years working with the Indigenous wisdom-seeking team co-led by Dr. Leona Makokis and Dr. Ralph Bodor, focused on the areas of Indigenous child welfare, Indigenous evaluation, and Indigenous wisdom-seeking processes. As a sessional instructor, Stephanie is intentional about using pedagogical approaches grounded in Indigenous story, language, and ceremony.
