Danielle Gardiner Milln

Danielle Gardiner Milln (she/her) is a doctoral candidate at the University of Alberta whose work focuses on equity-centered practices and policies in higher education. Her scholarship includes work centered on higher education policies and practices, particularly how equity is codified and mobilized throughout higher education systems. Her doctoral work centers on how student affairs professionals in Canada understand and mobilize reconciliation in their work, aligned with Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission 94 Calls to Action (TRC, 2015), with focus on ethical relationality as underpinning underpin the practices of student affairs professionals who choose to prioritize relationality in their work. As a woman of settler ancestry, Danielle is continually committed to exploring how reconciliatory relations can be and are fostered in Canada, particularly within higher education, and the resultant impacts on student belonging and success.