Save the Date - Become Involved - Indigenous Knowledge in Higher Education Symposium @ CIIS

[Angela Mictlanxochitl Anderson Guerrero]

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1st Annual 'Indigenous Knowledge in Higher Education Symposium: 
Moving Forward on Respecting Native Peoples and
Culturally Competent Curriculum Design & Implementation'
and 
Local Bay Area Indigenous Art Exhibition and Social to Celebrate Community Featuring Artist & DJ Ras K'Dee
at the California Institute of Integral Studies 

The working goals of the symposium include:
1) Collecting testimonies, observations, and critical analysis of indigenous scholarship in the Western higher education.
2) To gather and build a community of indigenous scholars, indigenous scholar practitioners, and community members representing indigenous groups, cultures, and traditions.
3) To build inquiry, strategy, and methods to disrupt scholarship and education models that subjugates and prejudice indigenous populations, history, culture, and traditions.

Prospective topics for dialogical and embodied inquiry:
- Impact of indigenous knowledge from all the directions on Native Ohlone history, traditions and revitalization efforts
- Opportunities for community based research integrating indigenous healing modalities in community mental health
- Curriculum design and implementation models in higher education - how does higher education population demographics and knowledge sharing impact indigenous based education and the wider community?

To become involved in the planning committee, please email aand...@ciis.edu

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Current Sponsors:
- CIIS Diversity Initiative 
- Mental Health Services Act at CIIS 

About Symposium Coordinator: 
Angela Anderson, Ph.D. candidate, M.A. is currently a scholar practitioner and artist whose doctoral studies are exploring the intersections of epistemology, indigenous knowledge and spirituality. Her dissertation in progress is titled “Testimonio and Knowledge Production Among Transterritorial Mexican and Mexican American Indigenous Spiritual Practitioners: A Decolonial, Participatory, and Grassroots Postmodernist Inquiry”. Prior to doctoral studies, Angela led the Center for Metropolitan Chicago Initiatives for the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Currently, Angela is a fellow of the Integral Teaching Fellowship at CIIS, and the Emerging Arts Professional Fellowship San Francisco/Bay Area. She received an M.A. in public policy and a certificate in health administration and policy from the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Public Policy in 2004, and completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Notre Dame in 2000.