Vanessa Ambtman
As a 60’s scooper and Indigenous adoptee, Vanessa was raised within a Dutch and Trinidadian family, living in both Alberta and Manitoba. Walking between two worlds, she has worked in the field of Indigenous health for the past 20 years. Vanessa is a second-year Ph.D. Candidate studying the geographies of Indigenous Health at Western University, with her research focused on examining Indigenous patient relationships to traditional healing spaces within hospital contexts. She was awarded the Indigenous Mentorship Network Ontario Scholarship in 2018 and 2019, was an Ontario Graduate Scholar (2019), and is a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Doctoral Scholar (2019 –2022). In 2020, Vanessa was awarded a Dr.ValioMarkkenAwardof Academic Excellence and became a Vanier Graduate Scholar (2020 –2023)