Arlana Redsky (Bennett) Ph.D.
University of Alberta
Dr. Arlana Redsky (Bennett) is a graduate of the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, the Indigenous Research Methods Assistant for the National Circle for Indigenous Medical Education (NCIME), and a former faculty member of the Summer Internship for Indigenous Peoples in Genomics (SING Canada). Arlana has received the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship for her dissertation research titled Indigenous Women and 2SLGBTQIA+ Perspectives on Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Governance: #CWDBeadsProject and Indigenous STS Interventions. Her M.Sc. thesis, written in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta, focused on expert perceptions regarding cervid (deer, moose, elk, and caribou) management in Alberta. Arlana’s current areas of specialization and research include wildlife disease management and conservation, Indigenous research methodologies, Indigenous science, technology and society (STS), and arts-based research creation.