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Jo-Ann was also a member of the Regina Riel Métis Council.

She was a member of the Boards of Directors of the Aboriginal Health Research Network, the Lung Association of Saskatchewan and the Lung Health Institute of Canada, and the Indigenous Literary Studies Association. Jo-Ann’s book Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing (2009) won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Scholarly Writing in 2009 and the First Peoples Writing Award in 2010. In addition to leading the Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre, a partnership between the University of Regina, University of Saskatchewan, and First Nations University, Episkenew was an active researcher and Co-PI on several Operating Grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and NPI for a team recently awarded a Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation Health Research Group Grant. She made important contributions to SPAR's work through broad research expertise in Indigenous Literatures as applied literatures, narrative medicine, narrative policy studies, and trauma studies.

Jo-Ann Episkenew was a member of the SPAR research team from 2012 until her untimely death in February 2016. Episkenew examines contemporary autobiography, fiction, and drama to reveal how these texts respond to and critique public policy, and how literature functions as “medicine” to help cure the colonial contagion.Jo-Ann Episkenew (Director, Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre, University of Regina Associate Faculty, Kinesiology and Health Studies, University of Regina and Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan Professor of English, First Nations University of Canada) Taking Back Our Spirits traces the link between Canadian public policies, the injuries they have inflicted on Indigenous people, and Indigenous literature’s ability to heal individuals and communities. From the earliest settler policies to deal with the “Indian problem,” to contemporary government-run programs ostensibly designed to help Indigenous people, public policy has played a major role in creating the historical trauma that so greatly impacts the lives of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples.