Dr Trudy Cardinal is a Cree/Métis scholar, educator, storyteller, and leader in Indigenous teacher education. She is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta and will serve as Associate Dean, Indigenous Teacher Education. Her work is grounded in narrative inquiry, relational accountability, Indigenous pedagogies and the responsibilities carried through story.
Across her teaching, research, and community-engaged work, Dr Cardinal creates spaces where Indigenous learners, educators, women, and youth can see their knowledge, identities, and lived experiences honoured. Her scholarship and leadership centre intergenerational mentorship, belonging, language and cultural revitalization, and Indigenous women’s leadership. Through projects such as Braiding Stories to Live By and the Young Indigenous Women’s Circle of Leadership, she supports story-based, creative, and relational spaces where confidence, healing, and resurgence can grow. Her leadership is guided by kinship, community, and the belief that story is not only something we tell, but something we live forward for future generations.
