Joanne Kienholz Coleman

Joanne Kienholz Coleman is a Senior Advisor in Research Development at Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC, Canada), where she supports researchers and research within the social sciences and humanities through grant facilitation, proposal development, and strategic research advising. Trained as an applied anthropologist, she has professional experience with University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology and community-based grant writing and facilitation in Indigenous contexts, an intersection that continues to shape how she approaches research development. She sees her work as a practice that strengthens collaboration, accessibility, and research impact, while maintaining relational accountability at its foundation.