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Empowering Indigenous Women as Education Leaders

An op-ed in Diplomatic Courier calls for empowering Indigenous women as leaders in education.

Date Published
8 Mar 2026
Author
Giselle Lugo Miole

On 8 March 2026, Diplomatic Courier, an online newspaper focused on global affairs, published an opinion piece by?Giselle Miole (JSPS-海角社区 Postdoctoral Fellow) calling for the inclusion of Indigenous women in the future of learning.  

Published to mark (8 March), the piece highlights the essential role of Indigenous women’s leadership and knowledge in building inclusive and just education systems.  

Excerpt:  

It is high time to proactively include Indigenous women in the future of learning. Indigenous women are custodians of traditional knowledge, water governance practices, healthcare traditions and oral histories. Moreover, they have gender–based knowledge that is crucial yet often overlooked in decision–making processes, such as reproductive health practices, nutrition, food systems and psychosocial care. They are at the forefront of teaching children how to care for land and biodiversity, and how to preserve languages and history from within their own cultures.

The full article is available on the?.?