Savannah Marshall is a first year PhD student in the Indigenous Experiences Lab and Clinical Psychology program at TMU. Savannah is a European-Canadian settler from Lindsay, Ontario. She obtained her B.A. (Hons.) in Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour with a mental health specialization and minor in Indigenous Studies from McMaster University. She is interested in research related to using a critical historical education framework to reduce anti-Indigenous racism in clinical settings.

Mary Kate Schilke (she/her) is an MA student in the Indigenous Experiences Lab and Psychological Science program at TMU. Mary Kate received a BA (Hons.) from Tyndale University and an MA in Counselling and Spirituality from Saint Paul University. Mary Kate’s background is European settler and Dominican immigrant, and she grew up in Southern Ontario. Her research interests include moral justification — specifically how we morally justify prejudiced attitudes and behaviours.

Jasmine is Ojibwe (Fort William First Nation) and European/white. She grew up in Fort William and Thunder Bay before moving to Toronto in 2019.

Jasmine holds a BA (Hons.) in Psychology and double minor in Criminology and Sociology from TMU. She is also a member of the Decolonizing and Indigenizing Psychology Committee at TMU. In the IEL, Jasmine completed her undergraduate research practicum and Honours thesis—The Impact of Critical Historical Education about Policing and Indigenous People in Canada on Indigenous-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, Feelings, and Behaviour—supervised by Dr. Iloradanon Efimoff and Dr. Becky Choma. Jasmine is interested in anti-Indigenous prejudice reduction via critical historical education—in particular, how this may intersect with the Canadian/settler colonial criminal legal system. She is passionate about Indigenous advocacy and strives to pursue research that may support meaningful change for Indigenous peoples in Canada.