Beading Our Way Home: Youth Photo-Voice Team
We are grateful to the Coast Salish peoples upon whose traditional, ancestral, and unceded shared territory we are uninvited guests on and for their care-taking of this land long before we arrived. All our relations.
Meet Our Team
Cheryl Inkster, M.A.
Cheryl Inkster is a citizen of the Métis Nation of British Columbia and PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia.
Over the last several years Cheryl has been meeting with youth from Métis Family Services along with Lisa Shepherd (Métis artist and knowledge carrier) on a project related to supporting the health, well-being, and resilience of Métis youth.
Learn more about Cheryl’s research: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/news/impact-story-mental-health
Lisa Shepherd
Lisa Shepherd is a Métis artist and knowledge carrier who is devoted to supporting Métis youth in connecting with culture through beadwork and traditional teachings.
Learn more about Lisa’s work: http://instagram.com/lisashepherdmetisartist/
Ishu Ishiyama, Ph.D.
Doctor Ishu Ishiyama is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is also an Associate Member of the Department of Psychiatry at U.B.C.
Learn more about Dr. Ishiyama’s work: https://ecps.educ.ubc.ca/ishu-ishiyama/
Simran Thiara
Simran Thiara is a recent graduate of the Bachelor of Child and Youth Care program at Douglas College. Simran is a research assistant on this project. Her lineage is of Northern Indian descent from the Punjab region, and she is grateful to live and play on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples.
Sponsors
This project is supported and funded by:
- The Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)
- The University of British Columbia Indigenous Strategic Initiatives Fund (ISI)
- The British Columbia Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research (BCNEIHR)
- Métis Family Services.
© 2023 Cheryl Inkster