Lise Vaugeois is a musician, composer, scholar and activist currently teaching at Lakehead University. Her research analyzes coloniality, and how it has marked the development of music education in ways that continue to establish and maintain hierarchies of what constitutes “the human.” She is concerned with the development of pedagogical spaces in which educators and students can critically explore social, political and philosophical issues together with questions of cultural production, public performance, and community development. She is also an avid kayaker and the music director a men’s barbershop chorus in Thunder Bay.