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She successfully defended her thesis on May 26, 2022 and we have invited her to present and discuss some of her findings. This dialogue will help us set the stage for a wider discussion on innovation leadership as part of our efforts to build an innovation culture at ISC.
She successfully defended her thesis on May 26, 2022 and we have invited her to present and discuss some of her findings. This dialogue will help us set the stage for a wider discussion on innovation leadership as part of our efforts to build an innovation culture at ISC.
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'''Dr. Nadia Ferrara'''
|Dr. Nadia Ferrara is an applied anthropologist and advocate for social justice. She is currently the Ombudsperson at Indigenous Services Canada. She was Senior Director of Values, Ethics, Diversity and Inclusion at Parks Canada. Prior to this, Nadia was the Executive Director at the Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime, Department of Justice. Nadia also worked at Women and Gender Equality Canada, and before that, at Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada for over a decade, where she developed social policies and frameworks in collaboration with Indigenous partners.
Nadia remains on Faculty at McGill University as Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anthropology where she supervises graduate and undergraduate students in her spare time.
Before entering the Government of Canada in 2003, Nadia worked as an art therapist for 16 years, specializing in cross-cultural psychotherapy with Indigenous peoples in Quebec and Ontario, Canada. Her education includes a Master of Arts in Art Therapy, a Master of Science in Transcultural Psychiatry, and a Doctorate in Medical Anthropology.
In addition to her publications of several journal articles and chapters in various books across North America and in Europe, Nadia has published two books on her work with the Crees of Northern Quebec: ''Emotional Expression among Cree Indians'', and ''Healing through Art''. More recently, she published ''Reconciling and Rehumanizing Indigenous-Settler Relations'', which is a reflection on her work as an applied anthropologist and advocate for Indigenous Peoples. Her latest publication is entitled, ''In Pursuit of Impact: Trauma and Resilience Informed Policy Development''.
Nadia is also an artist. One of her sculptures, ''The Friendship Knot'', is permanently placed at her former high school in Montréal, where she was born and raised. Nadia has a daughter, Mikayla, and currently resides in Ottawa, Ontario with her life partner, Lorna.
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