2022 Speakers
Co-Chairs

Renée Pelletier
Managing Partner
Olthuis, Kleer, Townshend LLP

Tuma Young
Lawyer & Indigenous Law Professor
Cape Breton University
Speaker Faculty

Darlene Bernard
Chief
Lennox Island Mi’Kmaq First Nation

Jeff Callaghan
Partner
McInnes Cooper

Shirley P Dawe
Executive Director, Crown-Indigenous Consultation Coordination/Nòkwewashk
Natural Resources Canada

Debbie Eisan
Community Planner
Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Center

Justice D. Timothy Gabriel
Judge
Supreme Court of Nova Scotia

Twila Gaudet, BA, LL.B.
Director of Consultation
Mi'kmaq Rights Initiative

Sandra Gogal
Partner
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP

Bryn E. Gray
Partner
McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Sacha LaBillois
Chief
Ugpi'ganjig, Eel River Bar

Cheyenne Labrador
Special Projects Manager
Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre

Alexander J. Levi
RIRSD Table Coordinator & Co-Communication Engagement Coordinator
Kopit Lodge

Adam Levine
Team Leader, Indigenous Relations and Participant Funding
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

Elizabeth Anne Logue
Director, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
UN Declaration Implementation Secretariat at the Department of Justice

Janice Maloney
Executive Director
Mi'kmaq Rights Initiative

Justine Maloney
Employment/Economic Development Coordinator
Nova Scotia Native Women’s Association

Tom Mann
Aboriginal Relations
Belledune Port Authority

Wilbert Marshall
Chief
Potlotek First Nation

Bruce McIver
Managing Partner, Counsel for Kopit Lodge
First People's Law

Samantha Noganosh
Lands, Resources and Environment Department Manager
Magnetawan First Nation

Jesse Perley
Director of First Nations Affairs
NB Power

Patrick Polchies
Director
Kingsclear First Nation

James Richardson
Economic Development Officer
Pabineau First Nation

Caryma Sa’d
Lawyer
Law Office of Caryma Sa’d

Dan Villeneuve
President
Great Northern Port
