- Identifying examples where decision-making opportunities in the workplace can be affected by assumptions and bias.
- Identifying examples of how known and assumed privilege can impact relationships and communication with Indigenous families.
- Defining cultural safety, identify what culturally safe practices look like, and how they can be introduced to the work place.
Executive Director, Indigenous Perspectives Society
Rachelle is from the Montagnais people in lower Quebec. She brings more than 15 years of management and leadership experience to her work as Indigenous Perspectives Society’s Executive Director. Rachelle has extensive front line service experience that informs her leadership from her early work with at risk communities including women in the sex trade, corrections, and the homeless community. As an inter-generational trauma survivor, she brings a lot of passion to developing Indigenous Perspectives Society’s Reconciliation from an Indigenous Perspective training offerings, which include Cultural Perspectives Training, developed to support the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Calls to Action.
