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Governance
Board of Directors
Terms of Reference
- Dr. Joe Dragon (Chair)
- Paulette Fox (Vice Chair) – President/Owner, Harmony Walkers Inc.
- Laurel Carlton (Secretary) – Founder and Principal – Summit in Stride
- Lynne Hately (Treasurer) – Director, Development and Communications (Alberta) Nature Conservancy of Canada
- The Hon. Ethel Blondin-Andrew, P.C. – Former Member of Parliament for Western Arctic/Minister of State for Northern Development and Former Chair of the Sahtu Secretariat
- Charity Callahan – Associate, Western Management Consultants
- Dr. Walter Dixon – Interim Vice-President (Research and Innovation), University of Alberta
- Dr. Stewart Fast – Senior Program Manager, Networks of Centres of Excellence Program (Observer)
- Lawrence Ignace – Resident, Whitehorse, Yukon
- Jocelyn Joe-Strack – Consultant, Subarctic Research & Strategy and PhD Candidate, University of Saskatchewan School of Environment and Sustainability
- Dr. Maribeth Murray – Executive Director, Arctic Institute of North America
- Dr. Niall O’Dea – Assistant Deputy Minister, Canadian Wildlife Service
- Dr. Mark Prystupa – Director Indigenous and Community Relations, Suncor Energy Inc.
- Kelly Sloan – Owner, Sloan Leadership Consulting/Owner, Odyssey Adventures for Women
- Alida Thomas – VP of Programs and Research, Empowering Villages International
- Wendy Wan – Senior Consultant, Humanity Financial Management Inc.
Governance Committee
Terms of Reference
- Laurel Carlton (Chair) – Founder and Principal, Summit in Stride
- Charity Callahan – Associate, Western Management Consultants
- Paulette Fox – President/Owner, Harmony Walkers Inc.
- Dr. Stewart Fast – Senior Program Manager, Networks of Centres of Excellence Program (Observer)
- Alida Thomas – VP of Programs and Research, Empowering Villages International
Finance, Audit, and Risk Committee
Terms of Reference
- Lynne Hately (Chair) – Director, Development and Communications (Alberta) Nature Conservancy of Canada
- Dr. Stewart Fast (Observer) – Senior Program Manager, Networks of Centres of Excellence Program
- Kelly Sloan – Owner, Sloan Leadership Consulting/Owner, Odyssey Adventures for Women
- Wendy Wan – Senior Consultant – Humanity Financial Management Inc.
Research Management Committee
Terms of Reference
- Andrew Applejohn (Chair) – Senior Science Advisor, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories
- Paulette Fox – President/Owner, Harmony Walkers Inc.
- Meagan Grabowski – Meagan Grabowski Consulting. Researcher, Biologist and Yukon University Instructor
- Dr. Eric Higgs – Professor and former Director of the School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria
- Dr. Murray Humphries – McGill Northern Research Chair and Director, Center for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment (CINE)
- Lawrence Ignace – Resident, Whitehorse, Yukon
- Mary Jane Johnson – Lhu’ààn Mân Ku Dań Elder
- Norma Kassi – CMN co-Research Director; Principal – Kassi Consulting
- Dr. Julia Klein – Professor, Department of Ecosystem Science & Sustainability, Colorado State University and Head of the Mountain Sentinels Network
- Marlin Legare – Research Associate – Morning Star Lodge, a lab of the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine’s Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre
- Dr. Mark Prystupa, Director Indigenous and Community Relations, Suncor Energy Inc.
- Dr. Cathy Ryan – Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary
- Dr. Stewart Fast (Observer) – Senior Program Manager, Networks of Centres of Excellence Program
Indigenous Circle of Advisors
Terms of Reference
- Andrew Applejohn – Senior Science Advisor, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories
- The Hon. Ethel Blondin-Andrew, P.C. – Former Member of Parliament for Western Arctic/Minister of State for Northern Development and Former Chair of the Sahtu Secretariat
- Paulette Fox, President/Owner, Harmony Walkers Inc.
- Jocelyn Joe-Strack – Consultant, Subarctic Research & Strategy and PhD Candidate, University of Saskatchewan School of Environment and Sustainability
- Norma Kassi – CMN co-Research Director; Principal, Kassi Consulting