Misko Aki Knowledge Exchange (MAKE) 2025 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: February 24, 2025

Applications are open for the Misko Aki Knowledge Exchange (MAKE) 2025. The Misko Aki Knowledge Exchange is a tuition-free, non-accredited, academic program. This modern program explores the various methods teachers, artists, and activists make habitable worlds knowledgeable by Indigenous and decolonial views and analysis. The Misko Aki Knowledge Exchange is grounded in theoretical studying and sensible application; it goals to be rigorous, intentional, and dedicated to transformation and revitalization. The classes of this interactive and collaborative program could be utilized to learner’s skilled and private actions and pursuits.

This 12 months’s theme is impressed by “Making Liveable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice” by Hilda Llorens (2019), in addition to the continuing efforts of Indigenous communities and colleagues devoted to creating habitable areas. Students who efficiently full the Misko Aki Knowledge Exchange program will obtain a Yellowhead School certificates in recognition of their achievement.

Program Highlights

• Explore how public coverage intersects with Indigenous data and decolonial principle
• Learn to craft public insurance policies that tackle settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and local weather injustice
• Develop expertise to implement neighborhood-centered public coverage initiatives
• Network with numerous professionals working on the intersection of public coverage and social justice

Cost

• There are not any charges for the Misko Aki Knowledge Exchange. Yellowhead Institute will cowl the prices for college students’ journey, lodging, and meal bills to take part within the required in-particular person intensive session.

Eligibility

• Open to Indigenous, Black, and racialized neighborhood helpers concerned in native, place-primarily based initiatives who’re occupied with increasing and deepening their data on the idea and observe of constructing habitable worlds and what it means to refuse circumstances of settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and local weather injustice.
• MAKE 2025 encourages functions from those that have been excluded from formal studying alternatives. This Indigenous-led, place-primarily based program will allocate 50% of enrolment alternatives to Indigenous candidates and prioritize residents of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

Application

Applications will shut on February 24, 2025 for the Misko Aki Knowledge Exchange Spring session, working all through May 2025.

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For extra info, go to Misko Aki Knowledge Exchange.