Hill is a queer of colour scholar, researcher and dreamer. Her work is informed by theoretical perspectives of critical kapwa pedagogy – a fundamental Indigenous Pilipino value of deep connection with and commitment to community.
Hill’s work focuses on the lived experiences of grief and liberation, social and racial justice, and health and education systems transformation. She has more than a decade of experience in participatory action research, visual arts-based research, youth and community engagement, and facilitation. Hill is a reader of Queer of Color Critique, Indigenous studies, Black studies and Leadership studies.
Experience
Hill is an associate faculty at Royal Roads University where she teaches in the School of Leadership Studies. She is also a researcher with Anew Research Collaborative at RRU, the Visiting Lab at New York University and the Critical Health and Social Action Lab at the University of Toronto.
In 2021, she was awarded the President’s Award for Advancing Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence from the University of British Columbia.
Education
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PhD Candidate in Social Justice Education
University of Toronto
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Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies
Royal Roads University
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Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy
University of British Columbia
Publications
Ansloos, J. & Hill, T.T. (manuscript undergoing peer review). Good grief, bad feelings, and other affective medicine. In E. Gurr & C. Richardson, Life course, missive, and methodology: Conversations about mental health and wellness from within Indigenous collectives, John Charlton Publishers. [Anticipated publication: April 2025]
Hill, T.T., Wright, L. & Etmanski, C. (manuscript undergoing peer review). Cultivating relationality and an ethics of care through arts-based and play-based research. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education. [Special issue on the topic of Feminist adult education and the imagination: Creative and arts-based practices. edited by D. E. Clover, K. Harman, C. Diaz-Diaz, & G. Franger. Anticipated publication: June 2025]
Hill, T.T., Cooper, I.R., Qureshi, R., Ramasamy, V., Yee, N.G., & Heykoop, C. (2024). Imagining futures amidst the uncertainty of living: A critical participatory action research project with racialized adolescents and young adults with lived experiences with cancer. Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, 11(2), 40-61.
Beltran, A.M, Hill, T.T., Webster, C., & Etmanski, C. (2024). The words we didn’t speak: Cultivating belonging, dignity, justice, and joy. Organization Development Review, 56(4), 17-24.
Hill, T.T., Cooper, I.R., Gill, P.K., Okonkwo-Dappa, A.J., & Heykoop, C.H. (2024). Learnings from racialized AYAs with lived experiences of cancer: ‘It's okay to critique the system that claims to save us’. Current Oncology, 31(2), 1091-1101.
Cooper, I., Lindsay, C., Fraser, K., Hill, T.T., Siu, A., Fletcher, S., Kilmas, J., Hamilton, M., Frazer, A., Humphrys, E., Koepke, K., Hedden, L., Price, M., & McCracken, R. (2022). Finding primary care-repurposing physician registration data to generate a regionally accurate list of primary care clinics: Development and validation of an open-source algorithm. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 6(6).
Cox, R.S., Heykoop, C., Fletcher, S., Hill, T.T., Scannell, L., Wright, L., Alexander, K., Deans, N., & Plush, T. (2021). Creative action research with youth. Educational Action Research Journal, 29(4), 569-587.
Fletcher, S., Humphreys, E., Bellwood, P., Hill, T.T., Cooper, I., McCracken, R., & Price, M. (2021). Team-based care evaluation and adoption model (TEAM) framework: Supporting the comprehensive evaluation of primary care transformation over time. Canadian Family Physician, 67(12), 897-904.
Berard, A.A., Plush, T., Cox, R.S., & Hill, T.T. (2020). Beyond information sharing: Stimulating youth recovery and resilience post-disaster through social media. International Journal of Emergency Management, 16(4), 297-316.
Price, M., Bellwood, P., Hill, T.T., & Fletcher, S. (2020). Team mapping: A novel method to help community primary healthcare practices transition to team-based care. Healthcare Quarterly, 22(4), 33-39.
Cox, R.S., Hill, T.T., Plush, T., Heykoop, C., & Tremblay, C. (2018). More than a checkbox: Engaging young people in disaster risk reduction and resilience building. Natural Hazards, 68, 1-15.