EDI Scholar-in-Residence with Dana-Lyn Mackenzie: Advancing the Indigenous Strategic Plan at UBC
Join us for an engaging and thought-provoking lecture with Dana-Lyn Mackenzie, UBC Library’s EDI Scholar-in-Residence, as she discusses her experiences with the vision, progress, and future of Indigenous engagement and reconciliation at the University of British Columbia.
In this session, Dana-Lyn will share insights into her experiences within various faculties implementing of the ISP—Canada’s first university-wide Indigenous strategic plan. She will reflect on some of the challenges and successes of embedding Indigenous perspectives across UBC’s campuses and communities, and explore how the ISP calls on all faculties, units, and individuals to take meaningful action in support of Indigenous self-determination and systemic transformation.
Whether you are a student, staff member, faculty, or community partner, this lecture is an opportunity to deepen your understanding of what reconciliation means in practice and how we can collectively contribute to a more inclusive and respectful academic environment.
Location: Peña Room (Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Level 3)
Date & Time: Thursday, January 29, 2026 – 3.00-4.00PM PT
- Date:
- Thursday, January 29, 2026
- Time:
- 3:00pm - 4:30pm
- Room:
- Irving K Barber Learning Centre
- Location:
- Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
- Audience:
- All All UBC Students Community Doctoral Faculty Graduate Master's Post-Doc Professional Staff Undergraduate
- Categories:
- Peña Scholars
- Presenter(s):
- Dana-Lyn McKenzie
EDI Scholar-in-Residenc
Dana-Lyn Mackenzie, JD, BA, Senior Manager of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Indigeneity, Faculties of Forestry, and Land and Food Systems, Lecturer, Bachelor of Indigenous Land Stewardship, Forestry, UBC.
Dana-Lyn Mackenzie, a member of the Hwlitsum First Nation and lawyer, is an elected councilor of her Coast Salish nation. She co-created UBC’s Weaving Relations course, IDEAL program, and Cascades of Change program, among others, and has led the UBC Orange Shirt Day Intergenerational March since 2021. Dana-Lyn has worked in Indigenous programming and student affairs since 2012 and has spent the majority of her post-secondary career in four faculties at UBC, the Allard School of Law, Applied Sciences, Land and Food Systems and Forestry. She was recognized with the UBC President’s Staff Awards for Inclusion and Anti-Racism (2024) and Advancing Diversity and Inclusion (2016). Dana-Lyn works as an associate lawyer at Acumen Law, where she practices employment law, wills and estates and helps Indigenous clients. In 2024, Dana-Lyn ran for the BC Green Party as an MLA candidate for Vancouver Yaletown. A proud mother of two amazing young adults, Dana-Lyn dedicates her spare time to her family.