Sarah Hunt

In 2017 she was awarded the Glenda Laws Award for Social Justice from the American Association of Geographers.

In 2014, she completed her Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University. Post-graduation, she was the Scholar-in-Residence at Vancouver Island University and postdoctoral fellow at the National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health. She became an Assistant Professor of Critical Indigenous Geography at the University of British Columbia in 2015. In 2020, Hunt took a position as an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Victoria.

Hunt received the Governor General's Gold Medal in 2014 for her doctorate dissertation titled, "The dynamics of law, violence and space through the frequently unheard perspectives of indigenous people working to address violence in communities across B.C."

Before working in academia, Hunt worked as a program coordinator, community-based researcher, and an educator who addressed issues around violence in Indigenous communities through promoting community capacity building. In addition to writing and co-writing many journal articles, Hunt has contributed her knowledge, research, and scholarship to the academic and greater community through several reports, book chapters, book reviews, talks, media articles, and blogs. In 2013, Hunt hosted a TedX talk in Victoria on the topic of colonial violence and the tension between law and violence.

Hunt completed both her B.A. in Women's Studies, and her M.A. at the University of Victoria. During her undergraduate studies she worked on several projects on Indigenous women in sex work in Vancouver and she worked as a youth outreach worker with the Urban Native Youth Association. In 2001, she started to work at the Justice Institute of British Columbia, researching sexual exploitation of Indigenous peoples and women.

Sarah Hunt (born 1976), also known as Tłaliłila’ogwa, is an Indigenous researcher, author and professor based in British Columbia, Canada. Hunt is a community-based researcher with an academic focus is on Indigenous politics, methodologies, decolonial methodologies, and issues facing women, girls, and two-spirit people.