About Avery Calhoun Avery Calhoun is a retired associate professor from the Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary. Books by Avery Calhoun ohpikinâwasowin / Growing a Child Implementing Indigenous Ways of Knowing with Indigenous Families edited by Leona Makokis, Ralph Bodor, Avery Calhoun & Stephanie Tyler Activism that Works edited by Avery Calhoun, Elizabeth Whitmore & Maureen G. Wilson