Action Against Gender-Based Violence
March 13, 2026 (9:00 am - 3:30 pm)
Location: Fountain Commons
In 2019, the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls published its report—. In 2023, the Mass Casualty Commission released its report – . In 2025, . Recommendations are made and bills are proclaimed, yet funding is lacking to address this systemic problem.
Join the Women and Gender Studies program and the Office of L'nu Affairs and Indigenization in a day of panel discussions, group dialogue and action-oriented conversations about what we can all do to make a change against gender-based violence.
Panelists include:
Annie Bernard-Daisley, former Chief and MMIWG Advocate
Emma Halpern, Executive Director, Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland, NS
Ginger MacPhee, Executive Director, Chrysalis House
Brooke Paul, Supervisor, Mi’kmaw Family Healing Centre
Cynthia Alexander, Politics, ÍøÆسԹÏ
Kathryn Bell, Psychology, ÍøÆسԹÏ
Mariah Cooper, History and Classics, ÍøÆسԹÏ
Michaela Dankwa, School of Kinesiology (Master program), ÍøÆسԹÏ
