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Jennifer Lavalley

  • Scholar 2020
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Interdisciplinary Studies
University of British Columbia
Jennifer Lavalley is a Project Coordinator at the BC Centre on Substance Use providing research support to the Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society (WAHRS).
For me, engaged leadership means bringing different perspectives and experiences together to create unity and solidarity across communities, foster opportunities to amplify and prioritize marginalized voices, and understanding the ways in which Indigenous knowledge can broaden modern concepts of leadership in order to provide leadership through traditional teachings, histories, and experiences.
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Jennifer Lavalley is nêhiyaw-Saulteaux Métis, and a registered member of Piapot First Nation (Treaty 4). She is a Project Coordinator at the BC Centre on Substance Use providing research support to the Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society (WAHRS), and a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of British Columbia. Jennifer’s research aims to explore the experiences of Indigenous people who use drugs in order to optimize and ensure the cultural relevance of overdose-focused harm reduction and substance use treatment.