Following the Marion Woodward keynote lecture, Dr. Wilson joined a panel discussion with invited panelists Tania Dick, UBC Nursing’s newly appointed Nursing Indigenous Lead, and Chloe Crosschild, UBC Nursing PhD trainee and Assistant Professor at the University of Lethbridge. The panel was moderated by UBC Nursing assistant professor, Dr. Saima Hirani.

“I think there are some ways that we can start to shift the way in which we do things which then starts shifting the climate about what’s acceptable and what’s not acceptable about talking, about racism, and how people are inadvertently placing burdens on our indigenous faculty.”

– Dr. Denise Wilson,
Professor in Māori Health
Associate Dean Māori Advancement, Faculty of Health & Environmental Sciences
Co-Director of Auckland University of Technology’s Taupua Waiora Māori Research Centre
Keynote Speaker

 

“We’re all really realizing we can’t move these things forward unless we all together step up to it. It’s not up to us as Indigenous people it’s not up to the non-Indigenous people, we have to do this together.”

– Tania Dick
Indigenous Nursing Lead
UBC School of Nursing
Panelist

 

“Allyship is a lifelong process. It’s something that is building trusting relationships. Its consistent, it’s based-on accountability with marginalized people or groups of people. It’s not self-defined.”

– Chloe Crosschild
Assistant Professor, University of Lethbridge
PhD Trainee, UBC School of Nursing
Panelist

 

“It’s not fixing one thing, there are many multi-factorial things that are embedded and woven into our society at several layers. It’s not easy to fix in one go.”

– Dr. Saima Hirani
Assistant Professor
Moderator