Dr. Umar Pantaleon Umangay

Umar Umangay is a Pasifika scholar, educator, and writer whose work engages Indigenous knowledge systems, decolonial praxis, and science education through a critical autoethnographic lens. His research articulates an “ecology of urgency” to share frameworks rooted in ancestral knowledge, spiritual accountability, and the critical transformation of Western science education from within. His work foregrounds storying, relationality, and embodied knowing as acts of decolonization. As a committed community educator and certified teacher, he integrates ethical protocols, spiritual sensibilities, and pedagogical innovations in the classroom. His practice calls educators to move beyond curriculum inclusion toward transformative relationships with land, learners, and Indigenous knowledge.

Umangay, U. P. (2025). Onto-ethico-epistemological expressions as/of/for Indigeneity: An autoethnography of professional practice in Indigenous thought, body, practice, and science education [Doctoral dissertation, University of Toronto]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. www.proquest.com/openview/288125be1c71cd98b39f3ba79592591e/1