Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar and writer. She has worked over two decades as an independent scholar using Nishnaabeg intellectual practices and currently teaches at the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning in Denendeh.

Simpson is the author of numerous books including As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance (2017), the novel Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies (2020), A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin (2021), and the forthcoming Rehearsals for Living with Robyn Maynard.

Simpson will give a virtual talk on Rehearsals for Living on April 5th, 2022, as the Oregon Humanities Center’s 2021–2022 Clark Lecturer.