Eighteen Indigenous women leaders from across Canada have graduated from the award-winning Indigenous Women in Community Leadership Enhanced Mentorship Program. Offered since 2011, the program supports First Nations, Métis, and Inuit women who are committed to creating social change in their organizations, communities, and Nations.

After completing an intensive on-campus residency that includes the design of a community initiative, participants bring their initiatives to life in their communities with the support of mentors, Elders, and Coady staff.

This year’s participants also had the opportunity to participate in the 2019 IWCL Alumni Gathering where approximately 100 Indigenous women leaders came together to forge connections, collaborate, and amplify their impact.

Congratulations to all of the graduates, and welcome to the Coady alumni network!

St. Francis Xavier University and Coady Institute stand on the lands of Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded home of the Mi’kmaw. We express our deep gratitude and appreciation to the generations of Mi’kmaw who, since time immemorial, have loved and stewarded these lands and the beings who call them home. Colonization is not just history; it exists in the present tense. While we strive to decolonize ourselves and our University, we know there is still much for us to learn.

We are committed to doing the hard work of self-reflection and to repairing relationships with the Mi’kmaw on whose lands we reside, including embracing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Calls to Action and embodying their spirit in our plans to move forward with our University.

Ms~t wiaqpulti’kl ankukamkewe’l
We are all treaty people.

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Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5
Canada

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