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Miranda Black is the Project Manager of Water Allies, an initiative of New College, University of Toronto, that focuses on bringing forth anti-racist, decolonial conversations on water protection. Miranda has recently graduated from X University with a Masters in Environmental Applied Science and Management where she focused her thesis research on the history of treaties in the Toronto area and governance practices that have kept Indigenous nations seen only as a consultation group, rather than as sovereign nations who have the ability to manage lands and resources using Indigenous Knowledge. To quote one qualitative research participant from this thesis, "Indigenous nations don't want to be part of someone else's bad management of the Great Lakes ... we think we can do a better job, just like we did for thousands and thousands of years prior to colonialism." She is of Mohawk of the Bay of Quinte ancestry and has been involved with protecting Indigenous lands and waters throughout "Canada."