Emily Simmonds
Manager of Indigenous Health Research
Emily is a critical scholar and qualitative researcher of Métis (Red River) and European descent. She holds an MA in Social Anthropology and is a PhD candidate in Science and Technology Studies at York University. As a member of the Center for Wise Practices in Indigenous Health’s (Ganawishkadawe) circle, she co-leads several projects at the local and national level that support Indigenous wellness, foster accountability to communities and advances First Nation, Inuit and Metis data sovereignty. She is an alum of several critical justice research collectives focusing on anti-racist and anti-colonial scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, including the Technoscience Research Unit (TRU), the Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory (DREC) and the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR).
