Keeping It Together is an Indigenous-oriented audio/visual podcast showcasing stories and strategies for maintaining wellness in a post-pandemic world. Hosts Dr. Lynden Crowshoe, Dr. Adam Murry, Bridget White, Louis Crowshoe, and their guests share their experiences throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and explore the activities and hobbies that helped them “keep it together”.
How did you keep it together during COVID?
Who We Are
Dr. Adam Murry
Bridget White
Dr. Rita Henderson
Dr. Lindsay Crowshoe
Lynden (Lindsay) Crowshoe MD is a Blackfoot primary care physician and researcher, member of the Piikani First Nation, Associate Professor of Medicine and Assistant Dean Indigenous Health at the University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine. He has experience leading research teams focusing on primary care, public health and health education. In research, he brings together and bridge multiple disciplines of knowledge including health, clinical, social sciences, professional health education and Indigenous Ways of Knowing.
Rita Henderson (MA, PhD) earned her undergraduate and master's degrees in anthropology from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and her doctorate in the same discipline from the Université de Montréal, Quebec. As a models of care scientist in Family Medicine, her research focuses primarily on Indigenous health, ranging from population health research to clinical intervention research, to the integration of these two.
Adam Murry (Chiricahua Apache), PhD, is currently an assistant professor of Indigenous psychology at the University of Calgary. His research interests include organizational development and mixed methods research to improve educational, employment, or health outcomes for First Nations youth and adults.
Bridget White is currently a research assistant in Family Medicine at the University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine. She recently graduated from Western University with an undergraduate degree in Health Sciences.
Louis Crowshoe
Michele Decottignies
Megan Sampson
Corrie Godoy-Contois
Michele Decottignies is a multiple award-winning producer, playwright, director, co-creator, administrator, advocate and activist with 35 years’ experience in the arts. She spent the last 20 years exclusively prioritizing equity & diversity in the arts through her company, Stage Left Productions – a hub of aesthetic innovation, cultural autonomy and intercultural equity for diverse artists, a leading contributor Canada's Deaf, Disability & Mad Arts domain, and a global Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed.
Short bio
Megan Sampson, MA, is a settler of French and Irish descent who is grateful to work and play on Treaty 7 territory. She has spent the past 6 years working with diverse communities in participatory health research. She recently transitioned to a student engagement role for the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Arts, and has been exploring arts-based knowledge translation, including directing a short documentary film in 2022. In her spare time she enjoys yoga and spending time with her 2 dogs, Parker and Gunner.
Corrie Godoy-Contois is a third year Bachelor of Communications student at Mount Royal University, specializing in Information Design and minoring in Marketing, with an educational background in Graphic Design. While in school, she works as a research assistant with the Indigenous Primary Health Care & Policy Research Network in Alberta. Her hope is to one day be a changemaker in her community through applying an empathy-driven design approach to projects based on equity, inclusion and sustainability.
Louis Crowshoe is a communications student at the University of Calgary. Hailing from treaty 7, Louis is interested in exploring how Indigenous knowledge can be applied in a rapidly changing world.