Area of Interest: Pathways to collaboration and understanding, dialogic practice, decolonization/unlearning, local Indigenization, "unsettling" White settler understandings
Location: Kelowna, BC
Pronouns: She/Her/Elle

Jody Dlouhy-Nelson (she/her/elle) is an educator-researcher of White prairie settler-colonizer ancestry. She works and learns at UBC Okanagan, on the beautiful, unsold, and traditional land of the Syilx Okanagan Nation.

Jody recently received her PhD in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies, with her focus on illuminating how beginning teachers create decolonizing and Indigenizing spaces for their students in the Land of the Syilx People. She was involved as a research assistant on the Co-Curricular Making: Honouring Indigenous Connections to the Land, Culture and Relational Self SSHRC partnership grant in the Okanagan School of Education. She has worked closely with supervisor and mentor, Dr. Margaret Macintyre Latta, and mentor, Dr. Bill Cohen.

Jody was born to parents who were the offspring of Settlers from Central Europe (Czechia/Hungary/England/Scotland); "I have come to understand only in recent years that the land my great grandparents acquired for small sums of money was/is the land of the Cree/Anishinapeg/Lakota/Nakoda/Dakota/Métis-Michif Peoples. I believe my learning over the past five years has enabled me to understand what it takes for the settler-colonizer to grapple with and ‘unsettle’ (Paulette Regan, Unsettling the Settler Within, 2012) the Truth, and to know how to proceed respectfully, for the sake of Reconciliation, and for the sake of protecting biodiversity. It is all inter-connected." Jody is an advocate for ALS Research and Community with the ALS Learning Institute of Canada. She volunteers with the Okanagan Ski Team on the Discipline Advisory Committee.