Dr. Dara Kelly-Roy
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Dr. Dara Kelly-Roy

Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Economic Wellbeing + Freedom, 2025 Fulbright Canada Research Chair

Dr. Dara Kelly-Roy, Kw’ekw’exós, has Stó:lō, Métis, and Talhtan ancestry. She is a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Indigenous Economic Wellbeing + Freedom, 2025 Fulbright Canada Research Chair, and Associate Professor at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.

In 2020, Kelly-Roy was awarded an Early in Career Award by the Confederation of University Faculty Associations of (CUFA) BC. This distinguished academic award recognizes her outstanding work exploring and applying Indigenous knowledge systems to broaden understanding of economic issues impacting the wellbeing of local, national, and international communities.

In her newest project exploring Indigenous economic wellbeing and freedom, Kelly-Roy undertakes research that aims to explore beyond GDP, a broader ethic of Indigenous economic wellbeing and economic freedom as an expression of wholeness, sovereignty, and self-determination.