Andrew Woolford is a professor of sociology at the University of Manitoba and former president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. He is the author of ‘This Benevolent Experiment’: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide and Redress in the United States and Canada (2015), The Politics of Restorative Justice (2009), and Between Justice and Certainty: Treaty-Making in British Columbia (2005), as well as co-author of Informal Reckonings: Conflict Resolution in Mediation, Restorative Justice, and Reparations (2005). He is co-editor of Canada and Colonial Genocide (2017), The Idea of a Human Rights Museum (2015), and Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America (2014). He is currently working on two community-based research projects with Indigenous residential school Survivors: 1) Embodying Empathy, which will design, build, and test a virtual Indian Residential School that will serve as a site of historical knowledge mobilization and empathy formation; and 2) Remembering Assiniboia, which will generate and develop an archive and memorial for the Assiniboia Residential School through hosting a reunion for former students.