Joey-Lynn Wabie
Biography
Joey-Lynn Wabie is an Algonquin Anicinabe ikwe from Mahingan Sagahigan (Wolf Lake) First Nation in Quebec. She is an associate professor in Indigenous Social Work at Laurentian University located on Atikameksheng Anishnawbek territory (Sudbury, Ontario). Joey-Lynn works in community at the grassroots level focusing on wellness, culture, and bringing people together. Her research interests are Indigenous youth's perspectives on Truth & Reconciliation, spiritual wellness/healing, and land-based teaching/learning.
Joey-Lynn takes the role of sister, auntie, cousin seriously and is dedicated to ensuring her culture and traditions are passed on through storytelling, ceremony, and the occasional latte.
Education
2017 PhD School of Rural and Northern Health, Laurentian University
2011 MSW School of Social Work, Laurentian University
2005 BSW School of Indigenous Relations, Laurentian University
Academic Appointments
2023 Associate Professor, School of Indigenous Relations
2021 Acting Director, Maamwizing Indigenous Research Institute
2020 Associate Director, Maamwizing Indigenous Research Institute
2018 Academic Director, YouthREX, Indigenous Initiatives
2017 Assistant Professor, School of Indigenous Relations
Research
2022 Principal Investigator, SSHRC, Maamwizing: A hub for community-driven Indigenous research, $430,832.00.
2022 Co-investigator, University of Toronto’s Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children, Waaneziyenhwiininoodjimoowayin (The path that is taken to heal together): Indigenous parents’ stories of the Child Welfare System, $80,100.00.
2021 Principal Investigator, YouthREX, Transform Nations, $4900.00. Completed.
2020 Principal Investigator, Canadian Heritage Fund, Tabik-Gizis Kinamegewin (Moon Teachings), $38,000 & Health Data Research Network, $5000.
2019 Principal investigator, SSHRC Connections Grant. Oshkimadizijik inewin: youth voices on reconciliation, $23,976. Completed.
2019 Co-applicant, New Frontiers in Research Fund, azhen giinawaa mazinibii'iganan, Repatriating Children’s Artwork to Indian Residential School and Day School Survivors in Anishinabe and Algonquin Territory, $246,692. Completed.
2018 Principal investigator, Advancing Indigenous Research Fund, Visioning with grassroots groups, $5,000. Completed.
2018 Principal investigator, Indigenous Mentorship Network Program, CIHR, Anishnabe Odinewin Summer Camp, 5,000. Completed.
2018 Principal investigator, Laurentian University Research Fund, Land-based Learning Journey, $5,000. Completed.
2018 Co-investigator, CIHR, Towards a Foundation for Indigenous Health Research Grounded in Our Relationships: NEIHR Development Grant, $70,000. Completed.
2009 Recipient of the University of Toronto/McMaster University Indigenous Health Research Development Program Graduate Scholarship and Research Support, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Institute of Aboriginal People's Health, $15,000.
Awards
2020 Top Research and Innovation Achievement, 5th place, Oshkimadizijik inewin: youth voices on reconciliation, Research Week, Laurentian University.
2020 Top Research and Innovation Achievement, 7th place, Wiigwam, Research Week, Laurentian University.
2019 Top Research and Innovation Achievement, 3rd place, Drs. Jennifer Walker (co-PI), Taima Moeke-Pickering, Sheila Cote-Meek, Joey-Lynn Wabie and Celeste Pedri-Spade were part of the research team behind the inaugural summer school of Ontario's Indigenous Mentorship Network (IMN), Ontario's first Indigenous-led health research training network.
Publications
Wabie, J., Watkins, T., Leslie, S., Anderson, M., Chartrand, A., & Haramincic, A. (2023). All our relations: Stories from the classroom and the land. In S. Cote-Meek & T. Moeke-Pickering (Eds), Perspectives on Indigenous Pedagogy in Education: Learning From One Another. IGI Global.
Wabie, J., & Kennedy, M. (2023). Navigating nikinaagiinaa (all our relations) online. In V. Kannen & A. Langille (Eds), Virtual Identities and Digital Culture. Taylor & Francis.
Wabie, J. (2021). Rites of passage: Building strength and resilience. In M. Hankard, & J. Dillen (Eds), Red dresses on bare trees: Stories and reflections on Indigenous murdered and missing women and girls. JCharlton Publishing: British Columbia.
Wabie, J., London, T., Pegahmagabow, J. (2020). Land-based learning journey. Journal of Indigenous Social Development,10 (1), 50-80.
Wabie, J. (2019). Kijiikwewin aji:sweetgrass stories with traditional Algonquin and Ojibwe women in northern Ontario. International Journal of Indigenous Health, 14 (2), 54-73.
Morgan, L., & Wabie, J. (2012). Aboriginal Women’s Access and Acceptance of Reproductive Health Care. Pimatisiwin, 10(3), 313-325.