Ixchel María Bennett

Courage & Renewal Facilitator
Speaks English, Spanish

Ixchel Bennett is an Indigenous Nahua/Zapoteca from Mexico City. She identifies as bi and queer. She has been in the field of education for over 20 years serving in different capacities as an educator, administrator, university course director and mentor. Ixchel’s leadership style is through a [W]hol[E]istic approach that equally considers a person’s spiritual, emotional, mental and physical aspects.

She is a Ph.D. candidate whose research focuses on Indigenous teacher education programs.

Ixchel and her husband Jason make their home in Caledon, Ontario.

Favorite quote

If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.

Lilla Watson

Book Recommendation

How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi Stamped From the Beginning The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi White Fragility. Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance, Jesse Wente The Inconvenient Indian. A Curious Account of Native People in North America, Thomas King As We Have Always Done Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance Indigenous Americas, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz The Mastery of Love, Don Miguel Ruiz

Ibram X. Kendi Ibram X. Kendi Robin DiAngelo Jesse Wente

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