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Shauneen Pete

Shauneen Pete has been an educator in the province of Saskatchewan for over twenty-five years. She has worked as an alternative high school teacher, a division-level educational consultant, and a professor. She has also served as both vice-president and interim president at First Nations University of Canada.

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Shauneen Pete

Shauneen Pete has been an educator in the province of Saskatchewan for over twenty-five years. She has worked as an alternative high school teacher, a division-level educational consultant, and a professor. She has also served as both vice-president and interim president at First Nations University of Canada.

Dr. Pete teaches education core studies classes at the undergraduate level. Her aim is to create courses that effectively prepare educators for the complexity of student and community diversities.

As a public speaker, Dr. Pete presents on workplace equity, institutional racism, cultural competency development, as well as leadership and organizational change. She speaks to issues concerning First Nations people’s histories, identities, and issues, such as women and leadership, violence against women, First Nations education, and more recently, issues associated with indigenizing the university.

Throughout her career, Shauneen has received multiple nominations and awards. She is a YWCA Women of Distinction Award recipient (Award for Cultural Heritage), a Little Pine First Nations Achievement Award recipient, and a National Aboriginal Achievement Award Scholarship recipient. She was also an Inaugural Tribal Scholar in Residence at New Mexico State University and was nominated for Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100.

She earned a master’s degree in education from the University of Saskatchewan and a PhD in higher education from the University of Arizona.