indigenous graduate student speaker series - clifford mushquash
indigenous graduate speaker series – sharing stories and learning from each other
clifford mushquash - master of public health, indigenous & northern health
wednesday, march 17, 2021 – 1 pm to 2 pm est
the indigenous student services centre is pleased to share this inspiring student speaker series. join to learn about these indigenous graduate 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 and their experiences along their educational journey.
the third speaker in the series is clifford mushquash. clifford is a student in the master of public health, indigenous & northern health.
plan to join to learn about clifford’s educational journey.
register in advance at:
https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tj0kd-ugpjmuhdbq8loa4toyvek_-...
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clifford mushquash is anishnabe and a member of pays plat first nation. clifford has previously studied business, political science, and public administration. after working for several years in health and human services, he returned to full time studies in 2016. in may 2020, he graduated from 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 (thunder bay campus) with a bachelor of arts in sociology and an honours bachelor of social work.
giving back to the community is important for clifford. he is a member of the rotary club of thunder bay - lakehead, the secretary for the board of directors of the john howard society of thunder bay and district, is a judge and evaluator for skate canada, and has recently become a mentor for the work-study program at outside looking in, a canada-wide organization offering mentoring programs to indigenous youth.
clifford is currently employed in the faculty of education at 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 as an administrative assistant for the indigenous language teacher’s diploma program, which trains fluent language speakers to be language teachers. he is currently completing a masters in public health with a specialization in indigenous and northern health.
everyone is welcome to attend.
amazon canada first novel award, the carol shields winnipeg book award, and won the lambda literary award for gay fiction and the georges bugnet award for fiction. whitehead is currently working on a third manuscript titled, making love with the land to be published with knopf canada, which explores the intersections of indigeneity, queerness, and, most prominently, mental health through a nêhiyaw lens. currently, whitehead is premiering his newly edited anthology, love after the end: an anthology of two-spirit and indigiqueer speculative fiction.you can find his work published widely in such venues as prairie fire, cv2, event, arc poetry magazine, the fiddlehead, grain, cnq, write, and red rising magazine. 
