Jon Johnson

French Canadian

Haudenosaunee

Kichisipirini

Dr. Jon Johnson is an Assistant Professor – Teaching Stream, at Woodsworth College, University of Toronto. His research is focused on urban land-based Indigenous Knowledge in Toronto and their representation through oral and digital forms of storytelling. He works actively within Toronto’s Indigenous community in his capacity as a lead organizer for First Story Toronto, an Indigenous-led community-based organization that researches and shares Toronto’s Indigenous presence through popular education initiatives such as storytelling walks of the city and smartphone applications that highlight Toronto’s vast Indigenous histories and geographies.