KATHY WALKER

Passionate Educator with excellent presentation, research and communication skills. Organized and driven with impressive list of achievements and history of excelling in high-pressure environments. Skilled at applying various learning methods and tools to optimize student experience and academic journey.

• Presenter, “Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration,” School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne in Victoria, AU (December 2018)
• Indigenous Practices of Deliberative Democracy,” Indigenous and Postcolonial Political Thought, Paper presented with coauthor Mark Warren at APSA in Boston, MA (September 2018)
• Knowing Our Place: Rethinking Emergent Political Theories of Territory from Indigenous Perspectives,” Paper presented as part of The Politics of Land and Decolonization Panel, WPSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA (March 2018)
• Until All the People Are Dancing: The Rise of Idle No More,” Paper presented at NAISA in Vancouver, BC (June 2017) and at the WPSA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC (April 2017)
• Duty to Consult: Creating Political Space for First Nations?” Paper presented at a National Conference in Honour of Allan Blakeney: Law, Public Administration, and Challenges to Democracy, College of Law, University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, SK (November 2016)
• Northern Entrepreneurship,” Paper presented at the Northern Entrepreneurship Workshop: Fostering Entrepreneurship in the North, University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, SK (2009)
• Panel, Webinars and Workshop Participation
• Invited Presenter
• Decolonial/Democratic Pedagogies: An Approach to Transformative Teaching
• Teaching Café (November 2022)
• Invited Presenter
• Co-ops as a Tool for Economic Reconciliation
• Cooperatives First
• (May 2022)
• Roundtable Participant, “Collages and Canoes: A Consortium Model for Graduate Education on Global Indigeneities,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association in San Diego, CA (May 2018)
• Participant, Summer Institute on Global Indigeneities, University of Washington in Seattle, WA (June 2017)
• Participant, “Global Challenges to Democracy,” hosted by the Research Excellence Cluster on Global Challenges to Democracy: Rights, Freedoms, and Human Development and the UBC’s Office of the Vice President Research (VPR) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC (May 2017)
• Roundtable Participant, “Memory and Responsibility During and After Mass Violence,” Workshop hosted by the Liu Institute, UBC at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies in Vancouver, BC (February 2017)
• Participant, “What is a Colony
• What is Colonization?” Workshop hosted by Barbara Arneil, Head, Department of Political Science, UBC at the Liu Institute in Vancouver, BC (April 2017).

• Western Political Science Association, Best Dissertation 2021 – awarded in May 2022 President's Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award, University of British Columbia, $263.84 (2021) Faculty of Arts Graduate Award, University of British Columbia, $3000 (2020) Four Year Fellowships (FYF) For PhD Students, University of British Columbia, $6066.67 (2020) Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (2017-2020) – Award $105,000 Fellowship, Summer Institute on Global Indigeneities, (2017) – Award $650 W.J. Stankiewicz Prize Award (“Best political theory paper”) (2016), Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia – Award $1200 The University of British Columbia Four Year Doctoral Fellowship (2015-2019) – Award $82,000 ScotiaBank Aboriginal Business Education Award (2012), University of Saskatchewan - Award $10,000 National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation Bursary (2008; 2011; 2015; 2016; 2017) Graduate Scholarship (2009), University of Saskatchewan - Award