Gemma Porter

Gemma Porter is an Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University in Fredericton. While she currently works with pre-service teachers, she spent 11 years as a public school educator in Saskatchewan, teaching various subjects at the middle and secondary levels. Over the last ten years, Gemma has become increasingly invested in supporting in-service and pre-service teachers to learn Indigenous ways of knowing and being. In addition to leading pre-service teachers through a mandatory course on reconciliation, Gemma sits on the university’s Senate Committee for Reconciliation. She is working on a research project on Indigenous education courses in Canadian teacher education programs.