Dr. Bill Cohen is a member of the Nkmaplqs/Okanagan Band with extensive kinship ties to Syilx Okanagan, Nlaka’pamux, and First Peoples throughout BC and Washington. He is Assistant Professor in the UBC Okanagan School of Education. He is an artist and educator. The focus of Bill’s continuing research is to identify, understand and theorize the transforming potential of Syilx Okanagan and Indigenous knowledge and pedagogy through organic language and cultural knowledge revitalization. He has organized numerous community, school, arts, language, literacy and numeracy projects involving elders, fluent speakers, parents and children.

Email:  billy.cohen@ubc.ca