"Right to Belong"
Dr. Dawn Lavell Harvard, Ph.D., is a proud member of the Wiikwemikoong First Nation, the first Indigenous Trudeau Scholar, and since joining the Board of the Ontario Native Women’s Association as a youth director back in 1994, she has worked to advance the rights of Indigenous women and their families locally, nationally and internationally serving as President of the Ontario Native Women's Association until 2022, and the Native Women’s Association of Canada. After stepping down from her role at NWAC in 2016. In October 2016, upon fulfilling her promise to see the MMIWG Inquiry initiated, Dawn left her role as National Leader and took on the role of Director at the First Peoples House of Learning at Trent University. Dawn works tirelessly to create safe, inclusive, and culturally respectable space for Indigenous peoples,
Dawn spends her days helping Indigenous youth achieve their dreams in her current role as Director for First Peoples House of Learning at Trent University. She was co-editor of the original volume on Indigenous Mothering entitled “Until Our Hearts Are on the Ground: Aboriginal Mothering, Oppression, Resistance and Rebirth”, she has also released a book along with Kim Anderson, entitled “Mothers of the Nations”, and a book with Jennifer Brant entitled “Forever Loved: Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada”. A second volume with Jennifer Brant, on MMIWG2S+, “Rematriating Justice” is being printed and due for release in June 2024.
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