Meet the first graduate of the Master of Indigenous Studies program

Kelsy Chan reflects on her master’s experience, her research on the Haida Nation’s Rising Tide Agreement, and the powerful community in the Indigenous Studies Department.

At her first lecture with professor Robert Innes, Kelsy Chan remembers him talking about how the discipline of Indigenous studies was about bettering the lives of Indigenous people.  

Chan was one of just three students in class that day, along with Tia Kennedy and Kendal Garlow; together, they comprise the very first cohort of the Master of Indigenous Studies program.  

Now, a year and a half later, Chan is preparing to attend fall convocation as the program’s first graduate (Kennedy and Garlow will finish at the end of December).  

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