Dr. Willow Samara Allen St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Willow Samara Allen, PhD (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Adult Education at Saint Francis Xavier University on the unceded lands of the Mi’kmaw people. She is a white Ashkenazi Jewish educational scholar with an interdisciplinary orientation. Her work centers on antiracist and anticolonial pedagogies and methodologies, social inequity and change, settler colonial socialization in public sector work, critical adult learning, and leadership, race, and whiteness. She specializes in critical qualitative methods that include a duo-pedagogic antiracist interventive methodology, an antiracist approach to appreciative inquiry, and duoethnography. Her work has been published in academic journals such as International Journal of Qualitative Methods, Settler Colonial Studies, and Studies in Social Justice, and in books such as White benevolence: Racism and colonial violence in the helping professions (Fernwood Press, 2022) and Fostering a Relational Practice (Brill, 2018). She is also the co-editor of two methodological texts, Project designs and methods: From professional development to critical and creative practice (UVic Libraries, 2022), and Duoethnographic encounters: Opening spaces for difficult dialogues in a time of uncertainty (DIO Press, 2021).