Jeffrey Ansloos

Dr. Jeffrey Ansloos is a leading public scholar, writer, and policy advisor in the areas of youth and social policy, mental health, and Indigenous rights. Dr. Ansloos is Assistant Professor of Indigenous Mental Health and Social Policy at the University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He was previously a Broadbent Institute Research Fellow and a Member of the Board of Directors.

His current research is focused on local and digital ecologies of Indigenous youth political mobilization, specifically at the intersections of criminal justice reform, suicide prevention, pluralism, racial justice, and migration, and Indigenous rights. Ansloos is Nêhiyaw (Cree) and English, and is a member of Fisher River Cree Nation (Ochekwi-Sipi; Treaty 5). He was born and raised in the heart of Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and currently splits his time between Toronto, ON and Victoria, BC.