Class XXII (2024-2025)

Typanga is Dane-zaa, Michif, and French living on her ancestral lands in what is now known as Grande Prairie, Alberta, Treaty 8 territory. With a background in Women and Gender Studies and Indigenous Studies from the University of Victoria Typanga's work and focus has been around creating connection, understanding, and positive spaces for people to exist. Typanga is passionate about decolonization, land sovereignty, intersectional environmentalism, harm reduction, and the political determinants of health.

Since graduating they have always worked in the non-profit sector and for the last four years they have been working in harm reduction as a support worker and community educator. They want to take their education, skills, and harm reduction framework into the world of anti-violence and anti-racism in their own community and create environmental and socially sustainable third spaces.

While at UQ Typanga wants to explore the boundaries of harm reduction and the ways in which it can be taken up as an epistemological framework to address socio-political and economic issues such as food security, housing security, and climate change.

Typanga is passionate about land sovereignty, intersectional environmentalism, the political determinants of health, and rugby.

"We are being asked to love the extraordinary species that is humankind and keep it alive." - Ayisha Siddiqa