Angie Phenix MOT, MEd, DHL (Candidate)
Assistant Professor, School of Rehabilitation ScienceAngie is a mother, Métis woman, scholar, educator, and occupational therapist. She has spent most of her career working in rural, remote, and often Northern regions of Canada, across both health and education. She co-chaired both the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists' (CAOT) Occupational Therapy and Indigenous Health Network (OTIHN) and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) Taskforce. Since the beginning of her career, Angie noticed the tension and problematic nature of using a Western-based model of practice in Indigenous communities. As an attempt to put words to these feelings, better address health and educational inequities, and become a better OT, she pursued a second degree Masters in Indigenous Education at the University of Saskatchewan. Her life, educational, and career experiences have helped to identify a lens to critically analyze how political, social, moral, historical and economic structures co-exist to create different realities for those who live on these lands, creating privilege/empowerment or oppression/disadvantage. Angie has (co)authored several publications, co-created the new Canadian OT competencies, and with the aim of shedding a critical light on the occupational therapy profession she has helped to develop the new COTIPP process model. Angie has joined the University of Saskatchewan as an Assistant Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Science and serves as the President of the Indigenous Occupational Therapy Collective of Canada.
Research Area(s)
- Indigenous health and wellbeing
- Indigenous community engaged and driven research
- Indigenous mentorship
- Social inequities
- Colonialism and racism
- Health professional education and practice
- Curriculum and pedagogies