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Lisa Howell is an assistant professor of Indigenous histories, perspectives, and contemporary issues in educational research. Prior to her appointment she was a part-time professor with the faculty for seven years. Lisa’s ancestors immigrated to Canada from Northern Europe and she is grateful to make her home on the unsurrendered, unceded territories of the Anishinaabeg peoples. Professor Howell was a classroom teacher with the Western Quebec School Board for 13 years where she taught and learned from Cree, Inuk, Anishinaabe, and Canadian students. Her research interests involve teachers, specifically how teachers unlearn prevalent narratives shaped by their lived experiences in settler-colonial societies. During her doctorate, she contributed to research with Drs. Cindy Blackstock and Nicholas Ng-A-Fook on how elementary school teachers used the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society education campaigns in their classrooms, which resulted in the . Professor Howell is currently working with Dr. Dwayne Donald (Alberta), on a project to , and with Drs. Tricia McGuire-Adams (Toronto) and Cindy Gaudet (Alberta) to understand the impacts of post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission Indigenous-content mandated courses in post-secondary contexts across Canada. She has been a member of Indigenous Education advisory groups at the National Film Board of Canada, The Downie-Wenjack Foundation, and the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. Professor Howell is passionate about community-led research, justice, culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogies, processes of unlearning, holistic pedagogies, and student wellbeing and is the honoured recipient of an Indspire Partner in Indigenous education award, as well as a . She collaborates with Kitigan Zibi Elder Albert Dumont on community initiatives in a collective called , and is a member of the advisory circle of