About the Authors

Dr. Jenna Woodrow

Dr. Jenna Woodrow is an associate teaching professor in philosophy at Thompson Rivers University. Her teaching and research areas centre on knowledge and justice. Her work focuses on how norms evolve, the relationships between the land and people that ground justification, meaning, and practices of holding one another responsible, and the roles that gender, oppression, and colonization play in producing knowledge and ignorance. She is deeply committed to open educational resources as a way of addressing epistemic inequities.

Jenna is also faculty advisor to the TRU Philosophy Club, founding chair of the Canadian Philosophical Association Decolonizing and Indigenizing Committee, chair of the Thompson Rivers University Faculty Association Equity Committee, member of the Philosophy in the Schools Project, and Western regional director and founding member of Ethics Bowl Canada.

Jenna is originally from Kuujjuaq in northern Québec. Her parents, Louise Beaudoin and Keith Woodrow, and their parents, Horace Beaudoin and Beverly Campbell and Kaye Timmony and John Woodrow, are all from Tiohtiàke, colonially known as Montréal, in the traditional territories of the Kanien’kehá:ka peoples. Both her children, Lachlan Johnson and Saya Johnson, were born on the the traditional and unceded territories of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwépemc’ulucw. She is grateful to live work and play in these beautiful lands.

Hunter Aiken, B.S.W.

Hunter, son of Lori Eggimann and Keith Aiken, is a 4th year Thompson Rivers University student majoring in social work and philosophy. He was born in Nanaimo of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla territory home of the Snuneymuxw peoples and raised in Fort St. John in northeast British Columbia within Treaty 8 territory of the Beaver, Dënédeh, Kaska Dena Kayeh, and Dane-zaa peoples. Hunter moved to the traditional and unceded territories of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwépemc’ulucw (Kamloops, BC) in 2020. His interests in philosophy are ethics, philosophy of mind, and Eastern philosophical traditions with a focus on their application for working with youth and adults struggling with mental health to achieve social justice along with individual and collective well-being. Hunter has worked closely with TRU’s philosophy and social work faculty in research and teaching assistant positions, currently serves as the student representative for the BC Association of Social Workers, and is set to graduate in 2025 with a 4.00+ GPA, with plans to pursue further higher educational studies in the future.

Calum McCracken, MA

Calum is a Master of Arts student at Thompson Rivers University, currently enrolled in the human rights and social justice program. Calum’s research interests include religious pluralism in political and public life, political philosophy, and Indigenous epistemology. Following the completion of his master’s degree, Calum aims to pursue a doctor of philosophy in political theory.