Jennifer Markides, Ph.D., is a citizen of the Otipemisiwak Métis Government (formerly Métis Nation of Alberta), SSHRC Tier II Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Youth Well-Being and Education, and Associate Professor in both the Werklund School of Education and Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary. Her community-based research focuses on the dreams, interests, needs, and holistic wellbeing of Indigenous youth. Working together, the partnerships respond to the immediate goals and long-term visions of Indigenous communities. Her ancestral Métis kin are the McKay, Favel, Ballenden/Ballendine, Linklater, and McDermott/MacDermott families, with Scrip records and connections to Red River. She honours her ongoing commitments of learning, relationship-building, and service to Métis people, communities, and organizations through her academic work and personal life.

Jennifer Markides, Ph.D., is a citizen of the Otipemisiwak Métis Government (formerly Métis Nation of Alberta), SSHRC Tier II Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Youth Well-Being and Education, and Associate Professor in both the Werklund School of Education and Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary. Her ancestral Métis kin are the McKay, Favel, Ballenden/Ballendine, Linklater, and McDermott/MacDermott families, with Scrip records and connections to Red River.