Lesley D’Souza is a student affairs assessment professional who specializes in storytelling with data. Currently, she is the Director of Strategic Storytelling & Digital Engagement in Western University’s Student Experience division. After focusing on assessment and storytelling in her two previous roles, Lesley is exploring how data-informed stories can be used to intentionally shift culture in positive directions using digital engagement best practices. Lesley has held leadership roles in the Canadian Association of College & University Student Services and ACPA - College Educators International. She is co-authoring an upcoming book "Design Thinking in Student Affairs'' to be published September 2021. Connect to Lesley: lesleydsouza.com and on Twitter: @lesley_dsouza

“I’m going to make mistakes, and I’m going to get things wrong. That’s going to happen. So I’ve got to learn how to apologize and learn how to make it right, and how to move it forward.”   ~Lesley on not being right, but getting it right how we center stories and knowledge.

Here are links to a few things we discussed and resources Lesley shared around Indigenous pedagogy and decolonization:

• ACPA 2016 Conference: Conferencing with a Baby
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
• Indigenous pedagogy: Storytelling
• Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods by Shawn Wilson
• Native Land https://native-land.ca/ 
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Unceded Land
• “Dish With One Spoon Territory”
• Reframing climate change as a story of human evolutionary success
• Empowering the Spirit: Educational Resource to Support Reconciliation
• We need to talk about social media
• The biggest problem with feminism today—and how to fix it
• The #InVinoFab Pod REPLAY Episode #22: Sista Circles Research
• The intersectionality wars
• Juneteenth
• Colonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education by Sheila Cote-Meek 
• Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education in Canada Edited by Sheila Cote-Meek, Taima Moeke-Pickering
• Living in Indigenous Sovereignty by Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara  With Gladys Rowe 
• When Aboriginal and MétisTeachers use Storytelling as an Instructional Practice  [PDF]
• Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline 
• Inniskillin - Try their icewines
• Niagara Ice Wine Festival 

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