Professional Summary

Dr. Jessica Barudin, Assistant Professor, School of Community and Regional Planning, is a community wellness practitioner, Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw scholar, and ‘Na̱mg̱is leader, focuses on revitalizing Indigenous knowledge, languages, and wellness practices through community-centered, land-based initiatives and spirit-based inquiry.

Research interests

  • Indigenous health and well-being, healing practices

  • Indigenous language revitalization

  • Trauma recovery, trauma-informed and anti-oppressive practices

  • Community wellness planning and land-based pedagogies

  • Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw and Indigenous research methodologies and ancestral knowledge systems

  • Yoga, mindfulness, contemplative practices

  • Indigenous womanism

  • Indigenous public health, health education, and decolonial healthcare

Publications

See academic publications written by Dr. Jessica Barudin on Research Gate and Academia

Awards

  • UVIC CIRCLE Relational Knowledge Grant

  • BC NEIHR Grant for Knowledge Sharing and Mobilization (2022)

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Award (2019-2023)

  • Teionkwaienawa:kon Quebec Indigenous Mentorship Network (2019-2023)

  • Concordia Graduate Fellowship (2019-2023)

  • Concordia Indigenous Graduate Student Scholarship (2019-2023)

  • New Relationship Trust Foundation Award (2020/2021)

  • Chief Joe Mathias Doctoral Scholarship 2020

  • Health Promotion Canada Rising Star (2018)