Angela Sterritt
Former CBC journalist in Vancouver and Yellowknife and first Indigenous recipient of the Massey Fellowship. Co-facilitated JHR workshops. Current host of Land Back for CBC Radio.
Connie Walker
Investigative reporter for CBC News, creator of Missing and Murdered and host of Stolen: Surviving St. Michaels.
Cyndy Baskin
Associate director and undergraduate program director and professor, School of Social Work, Toronto Metropolitan University.
Dan and Mary Lou Smoke
Journalists in Hamilton and professors at Western University. Hosts of Smoke Signals
Both are elders available for workshop sessions through Dodem Kanonhsa.
Duncan McCue
Host of Cross Country Checkup (CBC Radio One) and Kuper Island, Visiting professor at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Contact Toronto Metropolitan, the School of Journalism.
Elders from Dodem Kanonhsa
Dodem Kanonhsa, a space for learning and fostering greater acceptance and understanding between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples. Elders do outreach work for a per diem donation and can speak on a variety of cultural topics.
Hayden King
Assistant professor and advisor to the Dean of Arts on Indigenous Education.
Jesse Wente
Film programmer TIFF, former arts producer CBC and outspoken commentator. Chair Canada Council. Author of UNRECONCILED.
Joanne Dallaire
Joanne Dallaire (Iskawo/woman) Elder (Ke Shay Hayo) and Senior Advisor Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, Chair Aboriginal Education Council, TRC Co-Chair, Standing Strong Task Force Co-Chair.
Karyn Pugliese
Executive editor at Canada’s National Observer and a visiting Indigenous journalist at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Lenny Carpenter
Freelance journalist and filmmaker, Carpenter also used to be the program manager of the Indigenous reporters program, Journalists for Human Rights.
Maurice Switzer
Former journalist and head of communications for several regional and provincial Indigenous groups. Currently a commissioner, for the Ontario Human Rights Commission.
Michael Etherington
Michael Etherington is currently an Indigenous relations consultant with career highlights that include: TEDx Talk Speaker, United Nations Habitat Keynote Speaker 2nd World Summit.
Pamela Palmater
Chair in Indigenous Governance, Toronto Metropolitan University.
Tanya Talaga
Staff columnist at the Globe and Mail, as well as a highly recognized Ojibway author.
Contact through website https://www.ttalaga.ca/
Waubgeshig Rice
Author of Moon of the Crusted Snow and journalist originally from Wasauksing First Nation.
Graduated from the Toronto Metropolitan’s journalism program in 2002 and worked as a video journalist for CBC.