Hiliary Monteith

Hiliary Monteith recently completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Indigenous Studies at McMaster University supervised by Dr. Dawn Martin-Hill and Dr. Adrianne Xavier. She holds a PhD in Nutritional Sciences in partnership with Sandy Lake First Nation from the University of Toronto. She is currently collaborating with Sandy Lake First Nation and Six Nations of the Grand River with a focus on early life factors impacting health and wellbeing, water security initiatives, and traditional ecological knowledge for climate action. Dr. Monteith is also a Registered Dietitian and aims to support the integration of knowledge to practice within community environments and policy. Hiliary is a settler of Scottish, Irish, French, German, and English ancestry currently residing in Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe territory, which is part of the dish with one spoon agreement and the two-row wampum.