Meet the Team
Richard Vedan
Dr Richard W. Vedan "Chiteleqches" a member of the Neskonlith Band of the Secwepemc First Nation in the interior of British Columbia has a career in Social Work and Social Work Education that spans five decades. Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia's
School of Social Work and Past Director of the UBC First Nations House of Learning; he is currently Elder Scholar for Indigenous Education in Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Education.
Music of various genres has been a life-long pursuit and for several years he was a chorister with the Vancouver Welsh Men's Choir. Most recent research activity is in inter-generational complex trauma working with Emeritus College colleagues from Medicine, and Counselling Psychology and the UBC Opera Program working with Residential School Survivors, Canadian Veterans and First Responders. The role of music of all cultures is being examined as a key component of the healing journey in concert with other therapeutic approaches including epigenetics.