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Joey-Lynn Wabie

Joey-Lynn Wabie

Associate Professor, School of Indigenous Relations
School of Indigenous Relations
Faculty of Education and Health

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.