Full Name
Mikayla Redden
Institution/Organization
New College, University of Toronto
Speaking At
Speaker Bio
Mikayla Redden (she/her) is a mixed race woman (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg and Anglo-settler), from Nogojiwanong (Peterborough, Ontario). She is a member of Curve Lake First Nation who lives and works in Gichi Kiiwenging (Tkaronto). She is an auntie, helper, and learner who works as a librarian at New College, University of Toronto. She approaches her professional practice with an anticolonial lens and is guided by intersectional feminist theories. Mikayla is passionate about listening, learning, and amplifying the voices of marginalized peoples; critical, antiracist research methodologies; Indigenous data sovereignty; and community-led library practices.