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 and a consultant since 2016. Here is my profile on the University of Waterloo Architecture site, where I am currently an adjunct.
As a full time consultant I support several organizations including:
- Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario – 2026 Food Forest Learning Circle Facilitator.
- Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board – 2026 Grade 8-12 teachers professional development training in Anishinaabe knowledge.
- Health Canada – 2026 staff Indigenous cultural knowledge training.
- Teach for Canada – 2025 Gakino’amaage education assistant program – All day workshop on practical strategies for implementing land based teachings in classrooms.
- Natural Resources Canada – 2025 report – “Cultural tree species at risk in Canadas forests”. (please contact me if you would like to read the full report).
- 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 – Annual Anishinaabe Law Camp – Anishinaabe Inakonigewin.
My specializations include Indigenous land design principles, Indigenous curriculum developments, grant and report writing, and research.
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 practices, seed saving and restoring Anishinaabe cultural knowledge. Below are a sampling of projects you can review to familiarized yourself with my work.
Media
The Narhwal – 2025 – First Nations communities disproportionately threatened by wildfires: study. Contributor.
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
Judge, A. & Sánchez, J. (2025). Boozhoo Balanyá/ Greetings, Jaguar of Water!: An Indigenous-centred Study Abroad in Iximulew/Guatemala. Bloomsbury Handbook of Indigenous Education and Research.
Venier, L., Cooke, B., McIntire, E., Brandt, J. P., McKenney, D., Stralberg, D., Judge, A.,… & Stinson, G. (2025). Measuring and responding to forest degradation in Canada: an operational framework. Environmental Reviews, 33, 1-31.
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.