A passionate, transversal educator, researcher, consultant, and content creator.
Utilizing strength, the spirit of solidarity, patience, and compassion to hold space, in situ, to construct bridges for complex truths, places, individuals, experiences, times, and perspectives. Aiming to create the conditions for potential creative connections beyond oneself.
Bridging Worlds (Boffa, 2006).
Adriana researches, thinks, and writes near the beautiful and expansive river valley in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton), Treaty 6 Territory.
Her background and experiences of dis/placement with her family to Canada influenced her interactions with the world and all within it. This, in turn, has led to her personal and research inquiries that propelled her graduate studies and research collaborations into the online and offline spaces and beyond.
Her research inquiry and pedagogy form a transversalist bridge (Guattari, 1992/2006), that holds multiple disparate spaces, times, and perspectives from which to simultaneously think and create, as she views her research as an extension of her teaching and, conversely, her teaching as an inspirational site for her research.
As a guest on these lands, she is committed to the continual process of learning-unlearning, reflection, collaboration, and collective action which is necessary to ensure that the stories, languages, lands, treaties, and livelihoods of Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island are honoured in good faith. This is reflected and embodied in her research and pedagogy and is a part of the legacy she leaves for her children through her teachings with them.
“Expanding both heart and mind, engaged pedagogy makes us better learners because it asks us to embrace and explore the practice of knowing together.”
River valley, amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6 territory, (Boffa, n.d).
Contact Adriana (she/her/ella)
Educator, Researcher, Knowledge Mobilizer
Amiskwacîwâskahikan | Edmonton AB | Treaty 6