I will speak as part of a 30-minute panel discussion. In this discussion, I will describe the Indigenous food sovereignty activities that I lead and that occur in Katarokwi. I will share meaningful stories and some of the highlights of my postdoctoral research that focused on urban Indigenous food sovereignty in Katarokwi from 2022-2024.
Dr. Kaitlyn Patterson (mixed-ancestry Algonquin, 817 General List/Sudbury) is an Assistant Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University. She completed her PhD in Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University in 2022, and held an AMTD Waterloo Global Talent Postdoctoral Fellowship in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo from 2022-2024. She is a registered dietitian and her Indigenous-led, community engaged research focuses on Indigenous health promotion, food sovereignty, self-determination, environmental and community activism, Indigenous feminism, and land-based education.