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Office of Indigenous Academic and Community Engagement (IACE)
Etalew̓txʷ | ÁTOL,ÁUTW̱ | Centre of respect for the rights of one another and all beings

Kaiʻa Kauʻikamealohaiponoʻia Anaiah Hill Brydon

Kai'a Brydon Hill

Coordinator, Indigenous and Human Rights, Institutional Capacity Building

OVPI/EQHR

Contact:
Office: SED C Wing

As the Coordinator, Indigenous and Human Rights, Institutional Capacity Building, I work alongside the Director of Capacity Building to carry forward a university-wide initiative that advances our capacity to uphold dignity, equity, and human rights across our work, roles, and spaces, with a focus on shared understanding, accountability, and respect. My role centers on coordinating projects, supporting learning, relationship-building, and engagement, and developing inclusive, accessible tools and resources that translate institutional commitments and values into everyday lived practices across UVic.

Biography

Since coming to Lekwungen territories in 2014, my life, studies, and work have been transformed and guided by ongoing learning and unlearning, sustained reflection, humility, and gratitude, and a deep sense of kuleana to the lands, communities, and systems that have influenced my life.

I come to this work carrying both lived experience and a deep attentiveness to how people experience institutions in their everyday lives. My practice is shaped by my undergraduate education in Anthropology and Environmental Studies (UVic) and graduate education in Adult Learning and Global Change (UBC), alongside experiences navigating Canadian institutions and systems and years of work in Indigenous-led adult education and professional capacity building, where learning, accountability, and relationship are understood as an inseparable process.

How I show up in this space is grounded in my upbringing as a Kanaka Maoli, raised within my community and cultural values. I acknowledge my kūpuna, many of whom were skilled navigators of the world(s). Their practices of observation, attunement, and connection continue to inform how I understand leadership, responsibility, and care, particularly in contexts that call for mindfulness, innovation, and meaningful engagement.