Alicia Corbiere

Biography

Alicia Corbiere is Anishinaabe and Mohawk, and a member of Batchewana First Nation. She began learning her language, Anishinaabemowin, six years ago during her Bachelor of Arts degree in Indigenous Studies at the University of Toronto. Throughout her learning, she has been a student in several classes and attended immersion programs. She has been teaching Anishinaabemowin for 2 years, including grammar based classes and immersion camps for both adult learners and children. Alicia has learned from many first-language speakers, including a group she helped with called Anishinaabemowin at Home in Toronto, which provided immersion spaces for first-language speakers living in the city. She was chosen by the Midwest Indigenous Immersion Network for the Weshki-ganawenjigaazojig fellowship due to her demonstration of monolingual use of Ojibwe language in her education and workplace. Alicia is currently in a Master of Education program at Queen's University, focusing her research on immersion education.