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|'''<big>Valerie Gideon</big>''' (Her/She)
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''Opening remarks''
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|Associate Deputy Minister, Indigenous Services Canada
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|Dr. Valérie Gideon is a member of the Mi’kmaq Nation of Gesgapegiag, Quebec and a proud mother of two young girls. She currently holds the position of Associate Deputy Minister of Indigenous Services Canada. From 2018-2020, she was the Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB), Indigenous Services Canada. From 2012-17, Valerie held the position of Assistant Deputy Minister, Regional Operations, Health Canada. In 2011-2012, she was Director General, Strategic Policy, Planning and Analysis at FNIHB. From 2007-2010, she held the position of Regional Director for First Nations and Inuit Health, Ontario Region, Health Canada. Prior to working at Health Canada, her experience consisted mainly of working in First Nations health advocacy as Senior Director of Health and Social Development at the Assembly of First Nations and Director of the First Nations Centre at the National Aboriginal Health Organization. She was named Chair of the Aboriginal Peoples’ Health Research Peer Review Committee of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in 2004. She graduated from McGill University (Montreal) in 2000 with a Doctorate degree (Dean’s List) in Communications (dissertation pertaining to telehealth and citizen empowerment). She previously completed a Masters of Arts in 1996 at McGill. She is a founding member of the Canadian Society of Telehealth and former Board member of the National Capital Region YMCA/YWCA.
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|Twitter @valerie_gideon
 
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|'''<big>Tabassum Khan</big>''' (Her/She)
 
|'''<big>Tabassum Khan</big>''' (Her/She)
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|Outreach and Events Director for the Muslim Federal Employees Network and a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisor at the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions.
 
|Outreach and Events Director for the Muslim Federal Employees Network and a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisor at the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions.
 
|Tabassum is a Canadian Muslim woman of Southeast Asian heritage, she has experience leading, planning and implementing various DEI grassroots initiative in her organization as the co-chair of the Multiculturalism Stream and a member of the Inclusion Network. In her work at MFEN she has moderated GC-wide events and publicly spoke on topics related to Muslim Canadians (i.e. allyship, impacts of Islamophobia, intersectionality, and more).
 
|Tabassum is a Canadian Muslim woman of Southeast Asian heritage, she has experience leading, planning and implementing various DEI grassroots initiative in her organization as the co-chair of the Multiculturalism Stream and a member of the Inclusion Network. In her work at MFEN she has moderated GC-wide events and publicly spoke on topics related to Muslim Canadians (i.e. allyship, impacts of Islamophobia, intersectionality, and more).
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