Megis Oskalns

Megis Oskalns is a second year master’s Indigenous student in the Clinical Developmental psychology program. She is particularly interested in Indigenous youth suicide prevention, coping strategies for Inuit youth during COVID-19, fostering creativity, and interlinking Indigenous culture with biology and psychology in research. She is highly invested in Indigenous mental health and the effects of intergenerational trauma because her grandparents are residential school survivors. She is completing her M.A thesis on using the Mik’maq two-eyed seeing to evaluate an e-intervention for Inuit youth using an Inuit qaujimajatuqangit framework.