Erica Genaille serves as the Indigenous Programs Facilitator at Queen's University Faculty of Education, supporting Indigenous teacher candidates, instructors, staff, and community-based programming across the Faculty’s Indigenous education programs and initiatives.

Erica Genaille is of Ojibwe ancestry who was raised within a Métis cultural background, with family roots connected to the northern Winnipegosis area. Her lived experiences, community connections, and cultural teachings have guided her work in Indigenous education, wellness, and community support. She is deeply committed to creating spaces grounded in respect, relationship-building, cultural safety, and the restoration of Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being.

Erica holds a Bachelor of Arts in Behavioural Psychology from St. Lawrence College. Her academic work centers Indigenous perspectives on healing, wellness, and community care. Her honours thesis, Traditional Healing’s Role in Enhancing Indigenous Women’s Self-Efficacy & Self-Esteem in Transitional Housing, explored how culturally grounded healing practices can support Indigenous women through reconnection to culture, identity, and community. Her work incorporated sharing circles, storytelling, sacred medicines, ceremony, and the Seven Grandfather Teachings within a trauma-informed and decolonizing framework.

Through her role as an Enrollment Liaison Officer with First Nations Technical Institute, Erica works alongside Indigenous students and communities to support access to post-secondary education in a way that honours the learner's journey. Her approach emphasizes relational accountability, wrap-around supports, and reducing barriers that Indigenous learners often face within colonial education systems. She is passionate about helping students feel seen, supported, and connected throughout their educational journeys.

In addition, Erica served as an Indigenous Cultural Counsellor with Eagle Vision Canada through the Grey Wolf Program in partnership with the Canadian Armed Forces. In this role, she supported Indigenous youth through mentorship, advocacy, cultural teachings, and emotional support while helping bridge relationships between Indigenous communities, Elders, and the Canadian Armed Forces. Her work emphasized the importance of ceremony, identity, and Indigenous knowledge systems in fostering resilience, connection, and personal growth.

Alongside her professional and academic work, Erica regularly speaks with students and community groups about Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being, cultural safety, decolonization, and the importance of culturally grounded approaches within education and helping professions. Her work is rooted in reciprocity, respect, community care, and a commitment to uplifting Indigenous voices, knowledge, and wellness within both community and institutional spaces.