Jebunnessa Chapola is a Ph.D. candidate at Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Her research interests include newcomer and Indigenous women’s empowerment, community building, decolonization, anti-racism and responsibilities for Indigenous reconciliation. As a racialized settler woman, she has developed a strong understanding of decolonial autoethnography and collaborative community empowerment frameworks from her 15 years of working experience with various Indigenous, cross-cultural communities in Canada. Jebunnessa has published her work in peer-reviewed books, journal articles.
