Aanii Biindige! – Greetings Welcome!
Thank you for visiting my website. Here, I detail some of the projects related to teaching, public speaking and consulting that I am working on currently and some of the projects I have done in the past.
I completed a PhD in Indigenous education in 2018. Check out my dissertation here. I have been a professor or Anishinaabe and Indigenous studies since 2011. Here is my profile on the University of Waterloo Architecture site, where I am currently an adjunct.
I am a full time consultant and support several organizations including
- Teach for Canada – 2025 Gakino’amaage education assistant program – All day workshop on practical strategies for implementing land based teaching in classrooms.
- Natural Resources Canada – 2025 report – “Cultural tree species at risk in Canadas forests”.
- Science Rendezvous – Bimaadiziwin Mitigoog – Trees of Life – Oak Teachings, Ash Teachings, Birch Teachings.
- District School board of Niagara – 2025 Redesign of grades 1-8 social studies curriculum to honour Indigenous peoples.
- University of Windsor Law – Anishinaabe Law Camp – Aanishinaabe Inakonigewin.
My specializations includes grant and report writing, land design, and curriculum developments.
Please feel welcome to explore and or contact me if you have any questions mkomose19@gmail
Contribution samples
Since mid 2012 I have been working in the field of Indigenous education and have focused much of my efforts on land restoration. Below are projects you can review to familiarized yourself with my work.
Media
Ontario First Nations Technically Speaking Podcast – 2025 – Indigenous traditional ecological practices.
Globe and mail – 2024 – Why and how to plant your own food forest.
Ontario Nature Magazine – 2022 – The Forgotten Fruit – Interview.
World Wildlife Fund – 2022- Today we have gardens but before we designed entire landscapes.
Daily Beast – 2022 – Pyschedelics are surging at the expense of Indigenous peoples (paywall).
CBC – 2020 – Student in Laurier course to design sustainable habitats for local church community groups.
Publications
Forthcoming 2025: Judge, A. & Sánchez, J. Boozhoo Balanyá / Greetings, Jaguar of Water! An Indigenous-centered study abroad in Iximulew / Guatemala. Bloomsbury Handbook of Indigenous Education and Research.
Ho-Tassone, E., Judge, A., Trant, A., & Courtenay, S. (2023). Collaborative watershed analysis: A ‘groupthink’assessment of cumulative effects. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 49, S104-S115.
Artists in Presidents – 2022 – Transmissions to Power – I Choose to Remember – Recording.
Judge, A., Fukuzawa, S., & Ferrier, J. (2021). Local Indigenous ways of knowing and learning in the classroom through Community-engaged learning. Teaching Anthropology Journal, 10(4), 47-57.
Urban Habitat Restoration Project
The University of Waterloo School of Architecture
University of Waterloo 2nd year Architecture students in class ceremony – June 2024 – Cambridge, ON.