Kui Kasirisir (also known as Chun-Tsai Hsu in Chinese) is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, and also works for Taiwan Association of Indigenous Social Work as the chairperson. He began to study social work in 1992 and has practiced as a social worker since 2000. His experiences have taught him that tribal experiences are at the core of helping Indigenous people, which must include Indigenous perspectives of the world, Indigenous knowledge of health and Indigenous approaches to helping. His areas of interest include Indigenous social work, Indigenous social welfare, health and social care with Indigenous peoples, and Indigenous community development.

See more info about Kui Kasirisir:

https://fps.npust.edu.tw/en/teacher/kuii/

Ciwang Teyra is an indigenous woman from Truku tribal nation in Taiwan. She is also an Assistant Professor at the National Taiwan University Department of Social Work as well as the secretary-general at Taiwan Association of Indigenous Social Work. The critical importance of indigenous health, wellbeing and resilience is at the core of Dr. Teyra’s academic and career interests that are inspired and informed by her experiences as an indigenous woman born in the Truku Tribal Nation of Taiwan and immersed by Truku culture. Her research specifically focuses on historical trauma, healing and resistance, microaggression and intersectionality, indigenous health and health policy, indigenous social work professional development, community-based participatory research and mixed methods.

E-mail:ciwang@ntu.edu.tw

Email: wjhsieh2@illinois.edu
Wan-Jung Wendy Hsieh is a PhD student in School of Social Work in University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Wendy earned her MSW from Washington University in Saint Louis, MO. Previously she earned her B.A. in Social Work from National Taiwan University. After earning her MSW, Wendy worked as a Mental Health Clinician at a community based social services agency for 7 years in Seattle and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and certified clinical supervisor in Washington State. Wendy’s current research interests includes health disparity, mental health and behavioral health intervention in the context of minority population, and substance use treatment.

Atayal young woman of Mkgogan, and have three children.

In the process of educating children, we will reflect on the mainstream culture, and strive to practice the thinking of the contemporary Atayal in life, respecting nature and diversity in mutual care and understanding.

I am Yen-Chin Hsiao, a.k.a. Ali Rusupetan, a child of both Paiwan and Bunun. I was literally born in Tamazuan village in Nantou, Taiwan then briefly dwelt in Paridrayan village of Pingtung and spent the rest of my life in the city jungle. I was fascinated by languages so later became an English teacher, a translator and an interpreter. I have stayed in the state of Hawaii in the U.S.A and Fiji and vowed my life to the pursuit of Austronesian culture.