Dr. Angela Mashford-Pringle is an Algonquin (Timiskaming First Nation member) Associate Professor, Social and Behavioural Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Dr. Mashford-Pringle worked for over a decade at the federal government in Indigenous initiatives. Angela was the Indigenous Health Lead for Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Turtle Island Journal on Indigenous Health (TIJIH). She works with Indigenous communities related to Indigenous health including culture and cultural safety, language, land-based learning, climate action, and policy analysis and development. Dr. Mashford-Pringle is a scientific mentor of the Smithsonian Institute for Education’s Network for Emergent Socio-Scientific Thinking (NESST) program working with Teacher and Student Ambassadors. She has received teaching and mentorship awards from the University of Toronto in 2021, 2022, and 2024. Currently, Angela is developing research projects on ‘Other Ways of Knowing as Meta-Research”, “Critical Innovative Pedagogies for University Students” and “Government/University contracts in First Nations Health”.