Amanda Buffalo

Amanda Buffalo is a PhD student at the University of Toronto in the department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning and holds a Doctor of Education from the Department of Social Justice Education. In her current program, she is pursuing a collaborative specialty in Knowledge Media Design with a focus on Land+ as knowledge media. Her research builds on her previous work with Kaska Dena Elders that collaboratively built a from-the-land Dena education model for Liard Aboriginal Women’s Society’s Dena Gédḗní Kǫ́ā (Centre for Indigenous Women in Leadership). Amanda’s community activism and work has been centred on working with communities to end violence and address the impacts of hetero-patriarchy and settler-colonialism. For more than 15 years Amanda has had a community role in working with families of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2S+ people and survivors of violence in the Yukon. A committed lifelong learner, Amanda is grateful to spend time with the Elders learning about our many roles and responsibilities in passing on culture, tradition, and language.