Meet the Community Steering Committee: featuring Omisade Burney-Scott and Josie Auger

Today we chat with two more of the project's Community Steering Committee members, Omisade Burney-Scott and Josie Auger. Omi (she/her) is a Black southern 7th generation native North Carolinian feminist, mother and healer with decades of experience in nonprofit leadership, philanthrophy, and social justice. She is a founding tribe member of SpiritHouse and previously served as a board member of The Beautiful Project, Village of Wisdom, and Working Films. Omi is also the creator of The Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause, a multimedia project seeking to curate and share the stories and realities of Black women and femmes over 50. She is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, the proud mother of two sons, and resides in Durham. Josie (she/her) is Associated Professor in the Centre of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Athabasca University, Turtle Island (Canada). She served Indigenous peoples as an experienced senior administrator and elected leader for Bigstone Cree Nation (Treaty 8), and is author of “My People’s Blood Indigenous Sexual Health Recovery” (2014). You can also listen to Josie on the kikapekiskwewin podcast! “kikapekiskwewin” is a Cree word referring to a future conversation. At the heart of each podcast, Indigenous cultural values in the context of post-secondary research ethics are discussed.

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0m:38s - Everyone introduces themselves

22m:04s - Omi and Josie explore legacies of white supremacy and our current work on bodily autonomy and body sovereignty

35m:18s - Everyone discusses stories/narratives/initiatives that deserve more centrality in the conversation about pleasure today

56m:02s - Episode outro