Bishop, Allison

Allison Bishop is a settler-Canadian with ancestral ties to England and Scotland . She was raised in Williams Treaty Territory, in Beaverton, Ontario, where her maternal family has lived for five generations. Allison’s professional experience has always contributed to social justice policy and education initiatives with a focus on reconciliation, decolonization, and transformative change. Most prominently, she is the manager of the Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership (CRP), a 7-year SSHRC Partnership Grant that sets the conditions for the transformation of nature conservation and supports Indigenous Nations and their governments with the development and implementation of Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs). Allison is also a doctoral student in the Social Practice and Transformative Change program at the University of Guelph where she is exploring the complexities, dilemmas, and opportunities at the intersections of Indigenous-settler relations, decolonization, and conservation. Before joining the CRP, Allison was a civil servant with the Ontario provincial government where she made contributions to precedent-setting policies and programs to address gender-based violence, sexual violence, and anti-Indigenous racism.