I am pleased to announce Nahannee Schuitemaker as Humber’s first, Indigenous Curriculum & Pedagogy Specialist, Indigenous Education & Engagement.
Reporting to the Associate Dean, Indigenous Education and Engagement, the Indigenous Curriculum Specialist (ICS) works collaboratively with the IE&E, PPDR, RI, and T&L teams to provide professional-level consultation and collaborative support for the development of innovative and engaging Indigenous curriculum content, practicum experiences and work-integrated learning, and quality review. Applying knowledge of, and experience with, Indigenous pedagogies and decolonizing methodologies.
Nahannee Schuitemaker is of Kanien’keha:ka, French Canadian and Dutch descent. She has lived from coast to coast on Turtle Island and returned to Ontario in 2017 to begin her Ph.D. in Indigenous Studies at Trent University. Nahannee completed her Master of Arts in Curriculum Studies at the University of British Columbia in which she focused on the stories of mixed Indigenous women and their connection to land away from their own ancestral territories. She holds a double major BA in Psychology and Spanish with a focus on human rights and genocide studies, also completed at UBC. An artist and advocate at heart, her work and life journey has allowed her to work, build relationships with, and learn from fellow Indigenous peoples and communities.
Relocating from Vancouver to Ontario was propelled by her desire to be closer to Haudenosaunee communities in an effort to learn more about her Kanien’keha:ka roots and to embody her identity in a good way. Nahannee joined the Indigenous Education and Engagement team in the fall of 2020 as a part-time doctoral fellow and her enthusiasm for the work she was involved with led her to apply for her current position as Indigenous Curriculum and Pedagogy Specialist. While in this position, her work will include international collaborations delivering unique curricula, college-wide initiatives to build faculty and staff capacity, contributing to the establishment of Indigenous Research Protocols, and other Indigenous-centered initiatives to foster inclusivity and awareness at Humber College.
Please join me in welcoming Nahannee to this new exciting role.
Regina Hartwick
Associate Dean, Indigenous Education & Engagement
