TRICIA McGuire-Adams

Director

Member of Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek - Sand Point First Nation

📍Resides on Treaty 13 and the Williams Treaties

Dr. Tricia McGuire-Adams is an Anishinaabekwe from Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek and is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto. A Tier II (CIHR) Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Health Resurgence, she uses Indigenous research methodologies to study how Indigenous peoples’ knowledge systems can inform new thinking and practices for addressing health and well-being as a process of Indigenous Resurgence. Her current research program, supported by her H.E.A.R.T. Research Lab (Health Education and Resurgence Theory), focuses on Indigenous women’s physical activity, treaty relationality in advancing sociocultural studies of sport, martial arts and trauma-informed practices, and Indigenous disability.