Sheila L. Cote-Meek

Sheila Cote-Meek is Anishinaabe from the Teme-Augama Anishnabai. She is currently the Director, Indigenous Educational Studies Programs at Brock University and the former Vice-President, Equity, People and Culture at York University where led a new division that includes the Centre for Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion, Human Resources and Labour Relations. Prior to this she was Associate Vice-President, Academic and Indigenous Programs at Laurentian University where she led university-wide Indigenous initiatives. She played a lead role in several Indigenous initiatives including for example, increasing the number of Indigenous scholars, the creation of the Indigenous Sharing and Learning Centre, the Master of Indigenous Relations program and the Maamwizing Indigenous Research Institute. She also worked extensively on the faculty relations portfolio in collaboration with Human Resources and the Provost Office. Dr. Cote-Meek holds a PhD in Sociology and Equity Studies from the University of Toronto and is author of Colonized Classrooms – Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education (2014), lead editor of Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education in Canada (2020) and co-editor of Critical Reflections and Politics on Advancing Women in the Academy (2020). She is an active researcher and has extensive experience working on equity and inclusion in higher education including substantive experience working with Indigenous communities nationally on social justice and education issues. Dr. Cote-Meek has a strong history of building relationships that provide synergistic opportunities to advance institutions, and she is committed to working toward accessible higher education for all.

Publications

Amplifying and Centering Indigenous Pedagogies in Post-Secondary Education
Amplifying and Centering Indigenous Pedagogies in Post-Secondary Education
Sheila L. Cote-Meek, Taima Moeke-Pickering. © 2023. 15 pages.
Indigenous traditions and worldviews inform how we come to know, how we learn, and how we share. Relationships encompass all living entities, the land, the sacred, the knowledge...