Cash Ahenakew (PhD) is a First Nations scholar and an assistant professor in the Department of Education at the University of British Columbia whose research experience and interest focus on the areas of international Indigenous studies in education, curriculum, pedagogy, methodologies and health and wellbeing. He has been a research associate in international research projects on global citizenship education, international indigenous networks, and critical intercultural education at the universities of Oulu (Finland) and Canterbury (Aotearoa/New Zealand). Cash is Plains Cree and his family comes from Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation.