MMIWG National Action Plan Core Working Group Members
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The members will focus on development of the framework of the National Action Plan (vision, high level principles, high level priorities and themes, desired outcomes, etc.) and will determine accountability for results going forward.
Federal Co-Chair: Gina Wilson, Deputy Minister, Diversity and Inclusion and Youth and Senior Associate Deputy Minister, Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada
Provincial/Territorial Co-Chair: Valerie Royle, Deputy Minister, Tourism and Culture and Deputy Minister, Women's Directorate, Government of Yukon
Chair of the National Family and Survivors Circle: Hilda Anderson-Pyrz, Manager, MMIWG Liaison Unit, Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO)
Chair of the First Nations Sub-Working Group: Chief Connie Big Eagle, Chair, Assembly of First Nations' Women's Council
Co-Chair of the Inuit Sub-Working Group: Tracy Sarazin, Manager, Health and Social Development, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK)
Chair of the Métis Sub-Working Group: Melanie Omeniho, President, Les Femmes Michif Otipemisiwak
Chair of the 2SLGBTQQIA Sub-Working Group: Sylvia Maracle, Executive Director, Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres
Chair of the Urban Sub-Working Group: Diane Redsky, Executive Director Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata
Chair of the Data Sub-Working Group: Karine Duhamel, Anishinaabe/Métis Researcher, Former Director of Research for the National Inquiry into MMIWG
Co-Chair of the Federal Sub-Working Group: Claudette Dumont-Smith
Co-Chair of the Federal Sub-Working Group: Mary-Luisa Kapelus, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples: Chief Lisa Cooper, Director, Native Council of Prince Edward Island
Native Women's Association of Canada: Lorraine Whitman, President
Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada: Rose Mary Cooper, A/Executive Director, Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada
Provincial/Territorial Representative: TBD
Elder/Knowledge Keeper rotates on a weekly basis