Ogimaans

Angela Mesic is Associate Lecturer of the first year Anishinaabemowin courses at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in the field of psychology and is currently working on a Masters of Community Psychology. Angela has a strong interest in research focused on psychology of learning and curriculum development. At the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education she is A Project Manager for several projects in language revitalization with regional partners including the Indian Community School, several tribal nations and universities throughout the United States.

Michael Zimmerman Jr. is an enrolled member of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians of Michigan and Indiana. He has formerly worked as their Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Tribal Historian, and lead Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act consultant. He is currently a consultant on Potawatomi language for his band and the Forest County Potawatomi as well as working full time as the Ojibwe Language and Culture Instructor at the Indian Community School of Milwaukee where he teaches K4 through 8th grades.

Susan Wade is a dissertator in history at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her work focuses on maple sugar production by Indigenous women in the Great Lakes region during the fur trade era. Besides being a translator and food historian, she has taught and practiced historic cooking at living history sites in Canada and the United States.