Council of Directors

​Ishkenikeyaa Waawaashkesh (Marjolaine Lapointe)

Speaker

Ishkenikeyaa Marjolaine LaPointe (Anishinaabe) is a member of Ardoch First Nation. An educator for over 20 years, Marjolaine is currently one of 2 Indigenous Education Consultants for KPRDSB, with curriculum support, Anishinaabemowin, Indigenous-Centred Trauma-Informed Education and Indigenous-Centred Restorative Practice as portfolios. Marjolaine is passionate about language, culture, and culturally relevant and restorative education, and has a 2 decades-long relationship with Niijkiwendidaa.

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Julia Page

Secretary

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Erin Hayward

Treasurer

Erin Hayward is a registered member of the Lower Mohawks of the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. Erin is Kanien'kehá:ka and German on her paternal side and mixed European (Irish and British) maternally. Erin takes pride in having been born and raised in Scarborough Ontario.

Erin has volunteered for urban Indigenous organizations for a large portion of her life, and enjoys giving back to the various urban communities she has resided in through her volunteering. Erin is dedicated to ensuring urban Indigenous peoples have access to the supports that she herself relied on to reconnect to her own culture as a young woman. 

Erin is passionate about Indigenous sciences, Kanyen’keha (The Mohawk Language), hunting, fishing, and tending to ancestral seed and community relationships. Erin is a Certified seed collector by the Ontario Forest Gene Conservation Association, and spends a significant amount of time with her spouse collecting the seeds of native species of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, growing them, and dispersing their locally adapted genetic resilience. Erin holds a B.Sc (Hons.) in Biology and Geography, M.Sc in Environmental Sciences, and a post graduate certificate as a Cartographic Specialist and a professional designation as an Environmental Impact Assessment Manager. 

​Kayleigh Godecharle

Director

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Rebekah Rego

Director

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