Podcast - Deconstructing Colonial Gender Roles with Dr. Ruth Green

With Dr. Ruth Green (She/her), Director of the School of Social Work at York University.

Green is an activist turned accidental academic. She identifies as an urban Indigenous person, and is a citizen of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. She is from the Kanien’keha:ka Nation and is a member of the Turtle Clan.

Green likes to think, discuss, and write about Indigenous education. She teaches about the Indigenous resistance to the social issues that the geo-political nation state of Canada has created while also working to address the impacts on Indigenous communities. She is also a PI on DIVERT Mental Health a project to address EDI issues in mental health education through technology. She has a PhD from OISE in Adult Education and Community Development, an MSW and a BSW from X University now known as Toronto Metropolitan University.

Credit: Alright, now what? Hosted by Andrea Gunraj, Canadian Women’s Foundation

Date: 2025