Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane

Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane is an Anishinaabe dancer, educator, writer, artist and orator from Wiikwemkoong on Manitoulin Island, Ontario. Her grandparents, maternal and paternal, come from Wiikwemkoong. Her parents are residential school survivors. Karen is a scholar in Educational Policy Studies/Indigenous Peoples Education at the University of Alberta. She is an Assistant Professor at Mount Royal University in the Treaty Seven region and is cross appointed to the Department of General Education, Office of Teaching and Learning, and the Department of Humanities-Indigenous Studies. Karen lives in Calgary.