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Qwul’sih’yah’maht, Dr. Robina Thomas, is a member of Lyackson First Nation. She has Snuy’ney’muxw ancestry through her grandmother, Lavina Wyse, and Sto:lo ancestry through her grandfather, Charles Prest. 

Thomas was the inaugural vice-president Indigenous at UVic, as well as the inaugural director and executive director of the Office of Indigenous Academic and Community Engagement (IACE) and special advisor to the president. She still holds a faculty position in the School of Social Work where she started her career at UVic as a visiting lecturer in 1998 and accepted a tenure-track position in 2001. 

She has pushed for the expansion of Indigenous programming, student supports and accountability to local First Nations. She has developed awards that cover tuition fees for local Indigenous students in language programs; Renewed the Indigenous Plan and supported its implementation; Chaired the Indigenous Citizenship Declaration Policy Committee that has revised eligibility criteria for Indigenous-specific opportunities, advanced building naming in Indigenous languages, Expanded Indigenous academic senior leadership with Associate Deans Indigenous positions.

Thomas has expanded the university’s relationships with local Nations, Knowledge Keepers and cultural workers to strengthen local laws and protocols within the university, and Built a team within the Office of the Vice President Indigenous that focus on community engagement, protocol, capacity-building, institutional accountability and culture change.

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