Edward Flett, from St. Theresa Point Ansininew Nation, raised in the beautiful country of the Ansininew Territory, is very passionate in helping people.  He has worked at various capacities for his community and the region under the Four Arrows Regional Health Authority and the Island Lake Tribal Council which is now known as Ansininew Okimawin. Currently the leader of the STPAN Community Wellness and Prevention Program, Edward volunteers his time with the Underwater Search and Recovery Team, travelling to many Northern Manitoba Communities for recovery efforts. In his current role with STPAN CWP he focuses on helping the youth and young families battling addictions and other social issues.

Heather is deeply passionate about supporting our elders and ensuring they feel safe in the community and their homes.  She has over six years of experience in personal care home and various roles in Home Care Management. She also worked with children with FARHA Jordan’s Principle. Dedicated to making a difference, her journey with STPAN CWP started in April 2025 as PMSS case manager and later moving to her home community of STPAN to lead the OATS program.  All her efforts has reinforced her commitment to her personal mission. She believes in the potential for positive change and the importance of security and acceptance in our programs.

Jennifer is from the beautiful and loving community of St. Theresa Point Ansininew Nation. She holds the title of Aftercare Coordinator in the STPAN CWP organization, but that does not limit her to one specific field.  She is also certified as a mental health worker in First Nation Addictions.  She is very much passionate about helping people heal in our beautiful land. “Our lands hold valuable healing for the traumas we carry and I believe we can rise above those to make a better life for our people with our support, love, and care.”

Tanya Dawn McDougall is a dedicated educational leader, researcher, and community advocate with extensive experience in strategic program planning, trauma-informed education, and Indigenous knowledge systems. With a commitment to breaking down colonial systems and fostering culturally responsive care and education she provides personal and professional supports to community members and service providers in her home community of St. Theresa Point Ansininew Nation.

Kirsty Muller, RN, BN is the Addiction Services Program Manager for the Manitoba Anisininew Mobile Addictions Network (MAMAN) with Four Arrows Regional Health Authority.

She is an Indigenous nurse and leader with extensive experience in addiction medicine, harm reduction, and community-based care. Kirsty leads the development and delivery of low-barrier, culturally grounded addiction services across Island Lake Anisininew communities, including Garden Hill, Red Sucker Lake, St. Theresa Point, and Wasagamack, as well as an urban clinic in Winnipeg to support continuity of care. Her work focuses on providing opioid agonist therapy, harm reduction services, and trauma-informed care rooted in Indigenous values, community direction, and self-determination.

Kirsty also serves as Manitoba Regional Director for the Canadian Society for Addiction Medicine and sits on the Board of Directors for Main Street Project in Winnipeg. She is committed to advancing equitable access to addiction medicine and harm reduction services for Indigenous communities through relationship-based, community-led models of care.

A Swiss, white settler newcomer raised on a dairy farm built on Anishinaabe Land and Metis territory, Treaty Two. Twenty-five years of experience working in a collaborative team in community-based comprehensive sexuality education with Manitoba youth and service providers. Instrumental in relationship building in rural, northern and First Nation communities as well as Winnipeg and the development of a northern program. Spent over the past decade continually learning and supporting Anishinaabe ceremonies and Indigenous led initiatives in the hopes of building right relations.

Vanessa an Anishinaabekwe & Eveline a Settler share their anti-oppressive approaches for working with Youth as they model healthy Indigenous led co-facilitation. Two decades of delivering thousands of workshops on substance use, sexual health & relationships inform this session. Ways to incorporate Ancestral Knowledge of Indigenous People with respect to NOT appropriating as a Settler will be discussed while addressing social location as it matters in the work we choose to do.

Michelle Monkman (she/her/iskwew) is a First Nations, master’s prepared Registered Nurse from Norway House Cree Nation, with family ties to Misipawistik, Pimicikamak, and Tataskweyak Cree Nations. With more than 22 years of experience, she is a senior health executive advancing First Nations–led health systems in northern Manitoba, informed by work across Indigenous communities at the national level.

Michelle brings extensive leadership experience spanning public health, harm reduction, primary care, long-term care, education, and system transformation. She has led the design and implementation of innovative models of care that advance cultural safety, address anti-First Nations racism, and improve access, quality, and measurable health outcomes.

Grounded in First Nations sovereignty, accountability, and Two-Eyed Seeing, Michelle’s leadership integrates Indigenous knowledge and western evidence to drive meaningful system change. She is recognized for leading complex, multi-sector transformation while maintaining a strong focus on community priorities and wellbeing.

Michelle has contributed to education, research, and policy development, including work that has influenced Indigenous health systems at a national level. She continues to advocate for equitable, responsive, and First Nations–led health systems grounded in the strengths of the communities she serves.

Michael is a dedicated Harm Reduction Coordinator with CAAN. Strong commitment to promoting culturally safe and stigma-free harm reduction services for Indigenous communities.

Vanessa Gladue, Adrian Earl Robinson are Indigenous people with lived experience who have held many different Helper roles within health and social care. They are lead facilitators for the project. Ginetta Salvalaggio is a family physician and professor, and is the lead academic partner on the project. 

Vanessa Gladue, Adrian Earl Robinson are Indigenous people with lived experience who have held many different Helper roles within health and social care. They are lead facilitators for the project. Ginetta Salvalaggio is a family physician and professor, and is the lead academic partner on the project. 

Tracy is an Indigenous woman with lived experience who has held many different Helper roles within health and social care.  She is a knowledge keeper with the project.

Jennifer Wood has been a part of the First Nation community in Winnipeg and beyond throughout her career. She is a citizen of the Anishinabek Nation, a member of the Red Rock Indian Band and signatory to the Superior Robinson Treaty. She has had the honour to live in Treaty One since 1999. Her background is in recreation, community development,  health promotion, prevention and policy. She has worked for the University of Manitoba, the Healthy Child Manitoba Office and the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Manitoba Health, and the Southern Chiefs’ Organization on her journey to her current role with Keewatinohk Inniniw Minoayawin. She has held volunteer roles with the Urban Aboriginal Strategy, the United Way of Winnipeg, End Homelessness Winnipeg, and is currently a Director of the Board for Candice House. Jennifer is a long-standing member of the Winnipeg artistic community and is currently completing a certificate in Expressive Arts Therapy with the WHEAT Institute. She has a studio in the Point Douglas neighbourhood where she paints under her traditional name WaaBooz (Rabbit).  

Jennifer van Gennip is the Executive Director of Action Hepatitis Canada, a pan-Canadian coalition of 86 organizations providing community-based accountability on Canada's commitment to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030. Jennifer specializes in developing messaging and communications materials to support campaigns for policy or social change, and helping communities discover the collective power they hold when they organize together.

Chelsea Cook is a dedicated community leader and harm reduction advocate serving as Network Coordinator with the HELP Network in rural Manitoba. She works to improve access to Hepatitis C testing + treatment, HIV connection to care, and culturally grounded health services for Indigenous and marginalized communities. Passionate about peer-led initiatives and reducing barriers to care, Chelsea leads outreach events, education projects, and partnerships with healthcare providers. As a young Indigenous mother, she brings lived experience, resilience, and authenticity to her work. She is committed to strengthening equitable rural health responses and amplifying community voices.

Candace is a Metis artist, student, doula, sundancer, cedar bath practitioner, and community worker from Treaty 1, Winnipeg, Manitoba. She has worked in and for the Indigenous community for the past 21 years. Candace is cofounder of Zaagi'idiwiin Indigenous Doula Training and for the past 10 years has provided trainings for Indigenous communities across Turtle Island. Currently Candace is working with Ka Ni Kanichichk to created an Indigenous HIV doula program to support newly diagnosed relatives living with HIV in Treaty 1 territory. 

Kimberly Templeton is the Director of the Manitoba HIV Program, based out of Nine Circles Community Health Centre in Winnipeg. She holds a Masters degree in Science from the University of Manitoba. Kim has worked in provincial health program administration in Manitoba for 20 years, first leading cancer prevention and screening programs at CancerCare Manitoba, and now in HIV care. 

Melissa, a 2-Spirit/Indigiqueer individual, proudly holds citizenship with the Manitoba Métis Federation, tracing her ancestral roots to the Red River Settlement, Northern Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. She also embraces the identity of a person with lived experiences, having resided in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside for more than a decade, where she faced challenges related to addiction and homelessness. Melissa has emerged as a prominent national activist within the HIV/STBBI (Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections) community, leveraging her strength-based narrative to address the disparities that Indigenous individuals living with STBBIs encounter. In addition to her position as the Manager of the Village Lab, Melissa serves as an HIV at Ka Ni Kanichihk, coordinating a monthly sharing circle for people living with HIV/STBBI. Melissa's remarkable contributions earned her a Community Fellowship from the Feast Centre for Indigenous STBBI Research at McMaster University, a recognition closely tied to her work with Ka Ni Kanichihk. Simultaneously, she is pursuing her education as a student in the Inner-City Social Work Program within the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba, actively working towards her Bachelor of Social Work degree. In her spare time, Melissa generously volunteers her efforts with the Nine Circles Community Health Centre, where she serves on the Board of Directors and the Lived Experiences Advisory Committee.

Danielle Peebles is Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) and a registered band member of the
Keeseekoowenin First Nation, with family connections to Sagkeeng First Nation and Peguis
First Nation. She lives in Winnipeg’s North End on Treaty One territory. Danielle is a mother,
partner, daughter, sister, auntie, ceremony sister, and community auntie.
Danielle is a registered social worker with the Manitoba College of Social Workers and holds
two undergraduate degrees and a Master of Social Work (Indigenous Knowledge) from the
University of Manitoba. She has 15 years of experience in the social services field and draws on
experiential therapy and traditional healing methods to provide care and to walk alongside
people in their healing journeys. Her practice is grounded in anti-racist, anti-oppressive, harm-
reduction, trauma-informed, and person-centred approaches.

Danielle provides consulting, facilitation, training, and curriculum development. She is an
instructor with Yellowquill University College in the First Nation Addiction & Mental Health
Diploma Program, a facilitator with the Crisis & Trauma Resource Institute (CTRI) and maintains
a private therapeutic practice supporting adults and youth impacted by mental health concerns,
addictions, trauma, and intergenerational impacts. A fourth-generation residential school
survivor, she is committed to ongoing learning, cultural reclamation, and to sitting and walking
alongside people in a good way.

Gillian Kolla Gillian Kolla is Assistant Professor of Population Health and Applied Health Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University. She is a public health researcher who uses community-based research methods to examine and address the barriers to healthcare and social service access confronted by people impacted by marginalization, particularly people who use drugs and people experiencing homelessness. Sarah Torraville Sarah is the Co-Program Manager of the Safe Works Access Program (SWAP) at the AIDS Committee of Newfoundland and Labrador. Sarah began as a volunteer with SWAP in October of 2021 while completing her Master of Science in Medicine due to her passion for harm reduction and desire to support people who use drugs. Since then, her passion for harm reduction has only grown while getting to know people through her role at SWAP. She enjoys educating community members on the importance of safe use practices, sharing in peoples’ lives, and providing a comfortable space. Outside of work, Sarah enjoys spending time with her partner and pets and dancing competitively. Emma Penton (she/her) Emma has been involved in front-line harm reduction work through the St. John’s Status of Women Council (SJSWC) and volunteers with Overdose Awareness St. John’s (OARS), where she has been closely connected to the realities, strengths, and challenges faced by people who use drugs in her community. Driven by this work, she is now working towards an MSc in Community Health at Memorial University, focusing on rural harm reduction, gaps in services, and PWUDs’ lived experiences. Emma is dedicated to reducing stigma, breaking down barriers, and expanding access to care by centring community voices.

Sarah is the Co-Program Manager of the Safe Works Access Program (SWAP) at the AIDS Committee of Newfoundland and Labrador. Sarah began as a volunteer with SWAP in October of 2021 while completing her Master of Science in Medicine due to her passion for harm reduction and desire to support people who use drugs. Since then, her passion for harm reduction has only grown while getting to know people through her role at SWAP. She enjoys educating community members on the importance of safe use practices, sharing in peoples’ lives, and providing a comfortable space. Outside of work, Sarah enjoys spending time with her partner and pets and dancing competitively. 

Susan Smith is a community organizer who started out in the punk scene over 25 years ago. She has strong harm reduction values and has brought lived expertise and deep care into her practice. Currently she is co-managing the Safe Works Access Program (SWAP) with the AIDS Committee of Newfoundland and Labrador, distributing harm reduction supplies across the vast province. She’s committed to decriminalization, prison abolition, and encouraging systems to center restorative justice instead of carceral punishment. Susan has spent the last 10 years working with people who use drugs and sex workers advocating for decriminalization. In her spare time Susan plays with her two puppies and organises Heavy Metal Karaoke.

Emma Penton (she/her) Emma has been involved in front-line harm reduction work through the St. John’s Status of Women Council (SJSWC) and volunteers with Overdose Awareness St. John’s (OARS), where she has been closely connected to the realities, strengths, and challenges faced by people who use drugs in her community. Driven by this work, she is now working towards an MSc in Community Health at Memorial University, focusing on rural harm reduction, gaps in services, and PWUDs’ lived experiences. Emma is dedicated to reducing stigma, breaking down barriers, and expanding access to care by centring community voices

Vanessa an Anishinaabekwe & Eveline a Settler share their anti-oppressive approaches for working with Youth as they model healthy Indigenous led co-facilitation practice. Two decades of delivering thousands of workshops in substance, sexual health & relationships inform this session.

Karen Sharma (she/her) is a first-generation South Asian living in Winnipeg - Treaty One territory.  Karen is currently the Executive Director of the Manitoba Human Rights Commission, where she has worked for the past eleven years.

As the Commission’s Executive Director, Karen's job to lead promotion and protection of human rights in Manitoba through administration of Manitoba's human rights complaints system; the development of policy and research; and the delivery of human rights education.  

Prior to joining the Commission, Karen worked in leadership positions within Manitoba Labour and Immigration and Manitoba Advanced Education and Training.  

In addition to her professional work, she currently serves on the board of directors of Manitoba Possible and the Manitoba Council of Administrative Tribunals. Karen has co-organized Queer People of Colour Winnipeg, a collective that created programming that centered and celebrated Two-Spirit, Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous, people of colour. She is a past chair of the Board of Directors of the Women's Health Clinic. 

Prior to assuming this role, Karen worked with the Commission as the Director of Investigations and Policy.  Karen currently serves as the Chairperson of the Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Agencies.

Daniel Thau-Eleff is a Winnipeg-based playwright, performer, founder and Artistic Producer of Moving Target Theatre, and Executive Producer of Manitoba Association of Playwrights. He calls his plays “personal-political,” meaning they explore issues of human rights or social justice, through individual characters' struggles, mixing documentary and autobiographical elements into fiction. Daniel has performed his solo-shows all over Canada and he has led over 50 dialogic Theatre for Living workshops.

Daniel was the project lead and co-director of the Peer Voices and Imagining Safety videos, created in partnership with Manitoba Harm Reduction Network. Together with filmmaker Julie Epp and the participants, he developed a theatre/video process for these projects, which he studied for his Master's degree in Peace and Conflict Studies. In 2018, Daniel was recognized for his theatre work with the Manitoba Human Rights Commitment Award.

https://MovingTargetTheatre.com/

Julie Epp is a Winnipeg-based filmmaker, videographer, and National People & Engagement Lead at a national architectural firm. As a queer artist with a background in art therapy and narrative practice, she is known for her thoughtful, collaborative approach to working in sensitive and complex spaces.

Her work brings together storytelling, relationship-building, and a commitment to equity, often centering the voices of people with lived experience. Julie was the filmmaker and co-creator of Peer Voices and Imagining Safety, developed in partnership with the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network and theatre artist Daniel Thau-Eleff. She is currently collaborating with MHRN on an HIV-focused video project, and with the Canadian Public Health Association to support the development of stigma reduction training for service providers.

Her work explores important social issues through storytelling grounded in authentic relationships and trust.

Jamey is a 67 year resident of Selkirk, Manitoba and carries 50 years experience of navigating substance use.   Jamey has been an active leader with the Selkirk Peer Advisory Council for ten years, supporting access to housing, STTBI testing and Treatment and safer practices in substance use in Selkirk.

Jamey was a part of the creative groups for both Peer Voices and Imagining Safety in Selkirk. Jamey is an active advocate for harm reduction services, as well as detox and treatment capacity within Selkirk and other rural communities. Jamey loves to use humor as a tool in our harm reduction tool kit.

Heather Witherden is an award-winning storyteller who has shared her personal monologue about using Naloxone to audiences in Western Canada, as part of the show, 'Moms Moms Moms'. It's a story of healing and love made possible by harm reduction.

Karen is the interim Director of Community Initiatives at Main Street Project, where she leads the development and implementation of innovative, evidence-based harm reduction initiatives. Karen supports programs including Emergency Shelter Services, Mobile Outreach, Housing and Harm Reduction Programs. She holds undergraduate degrees in Criminology and Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Manitoba, and a Master of Arts in Gender and Social Justice from the University of Alberta. Her work is grounded in a commitment to dignity, accessibility, and community-centered care.

Bri is a harm reduction nurse with experience in public and clinical health holding a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Manitoba. Her approach centers on building trust, reducing barriers, and supporting people who use substances with respect and care. Bri has spent one year as Harm Reduction Manager at Main Street Project, overseeing both the safe supply and managed alcohol program. She continues this work as a nurse, providing frontline, relationship-centered care in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and community partners.

Leigh Elliott (she/her) — Peers Executive Director Leigh has a Master of Arts in political theory with a focus on biopolitics, agency, and the harmful conflation of human trafficking and sex work. Previous to her position as Executive Director, Leigh worked with Peers Victoria as the Operations Manager and as a researcher conducting community-based research on sex work, housing, gender-based violence and violence prevention. Leigh is a big advocate for sex worker rights and intersectional approaches to health and social service work and is honoured to be working alongside such an amazing and empowering community ❤️.

Wanda Tschritter (She/her) has been working in the HOPPS program since its inception. She is a big advocate for peer-based work, harm reduction, and community care.

Ken MacKenzie, RSW, MSW, BSW, is currently employed at Keewatinohk Inninew Minoayawin where he has been practicing, primarily in the area of Indigenous Harm Reduction for the last four years. During his time at KIM, Ken’s focus has been the design, implementation and evaluation of harm reduction programs including but not limited to Managed Alcohol programs, Opioid Agonist Treatment and other community driven Harm Reduction programs for the First Nations people living in Northern Manitoba. Ken has a Master’s degree in Social Work after completing his research in Bunibonibee Cree Nation, which developed a liberatory framework for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous practitioners to work together in decolonizing ways. He also has a Bachelor of Social Work Degree from the University of Manitoba and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Winnipeg and Louisiana State University. Ken is a proud member of the Manto Sagahekan (Gods Lake First Nation) Sundance family completing the required, four sundance ceremonies at the community’s annual sundance ceremony, to earn this honor. He has also participated in several indigenous healing ceremonies including sweatlodges, yuwipi, shaking tent and the harvesting, preparation, and use of traditional Indigenous medicines. Ken’s Social Work practice over the past 28 years has been in administrative and clinical capacities across Manitoba in the areas of Mental Health and Substance use, Child Welfare, Manitoba Justice, Adult Services for the Intellectually impaired, Community Forensic Mental Health Services, and Adult Crisis Response services. Working across these structures and practices Ken has used this unique location, education and teaching/learning opportunities to engage in decolonizing actions to support Indigenous people, families and communities in overcoming the harms that they continue to endure from the colonial structures and practices that do great harm to all through the use of trauma informed, anti-oppressive, ant-racist and decolonizing approaches in his ongoing work with the Inniniwuk, Anishininnewuk, Dene, Anishinaabe and Lakota people of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario. This work has and continues to challenge structures and practices to finally put an end to First Nations specific racism in human service organizations across Manitoba.

Hubert Watt was raised in God's Lake First Nation, a remote Inniniwuk community located in what is now known as northeastern Manitoba.  Hubert’s connection with the land, water and all things is deeply rooted in his approach to everything he does.  He has worked in many different roles in Gods Lake First Nation over the past several years and as Hubert will tell you, “I have worked with the people for most of my life and try my best to help them in any way I can”.  These roles include working at God's Narrows School in the early 90's for about 5 years with students, parents and teachers as an education liaison.  Hubert then worked in Gods Lake First Nation Band Administration with the Federal Social Assistance program for a few years, working with Community Members who received financial support through this program.

In 2006 Hubert was elected as a Councillor, for several terms and in 2020 he was elected as chief of GLFN for 2 terms.  While working as Chief of Gods Lake First Nation, Hubert Watt led and supported his community through the suicide crisis which began in 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the crystal methamphetamine crisis, which was declared in October of 2022.  Hubert Watt has been a community champion in the establishment of the community-based crystal methamphetamine community member stabilization facility, Buskeh Banoon Recovery Center, and in November of 2024, he took on the role of Coordinator for Buskeh Banoon Recovery Center which has provided stabilization services and supports for over 200 community members struggling with withdrawal from crystal methamphetamine and other substances.  His approach in doing this work blends both Inniniwuk (Cree) and western based science to support the healing of community members from Gods Lake First Nation.  

Joseph Keilty graduated from the University of Manitoba with a bachelor’s degree in Nursing in 2017. In 2016, as a nursing student, they co-founded a harm reduction program called Project Safe Audience. Following their graduation, Joseph worked for two years at Seven Oaks Emergency Department. Since 2019, they have been employed as a public health nurse at Healthy Sexuality and Harm Reduction/Street Connections.

Paula Migliardi is the Program Specialist with Healthy Sexuality and Harm Reduction, Population and Public Health. Paula has over 2 decades of experience in collaborating with diverse communities in community-based research and program evaluation. Her main areas of interest include sexuality and sexual health, and harm reduction. Paula has been instrumental in establishing drug checking services at Street Connections. 

Meagan Jonker (she/her) is a Health Education Facilitator and Drug Checking Technician at Nine Circles Community Health Centre. Being one of two technicians at Nine Circles, Meagan was a keenly involved with launching the service in the spring of 2025. Meagan has worked and volunteered extensively in both recovery and harm reduction spaces. If she's not working the front-lines, you can find Meagan spear-heading labour relations, and workplace health & safety initiatives, advocating for safety and support for all. 
 

Jason P. Zweiban is an advocate for harm reduction community and has experience as both a peer and a service provider. His journey began in the rave and queer communities through Project Safe Audience, an initiative aimed at providing non-judgemental information to others at music events. After volunteering with ANKORS at the Shambhala Music Festival in the mountains of BC, Jason returned with a passion for drug checking. He has since dedicated himself to bringing drug testing services to the Winnipeg community by advocating for increased access to substance testing of all kinds. He currently works with several agencies, including Sunshine House on the MOPS (Mobile Overdose Prevention Team) to use his knowledge of FT-IR and reagent drug checking services to promote education about drug checking services. 

Jennifer Meixner is a Red River Metis citizen who lives, learns, works, and plays in Treaty 1 territory and the Red River Metis homelands. Jen is an anti-oppressive justice-oriented practioner, educator, researcher, and creative capacity weaver. Jennifer is passionate about promoting decolonial and relational intelligence among individuals, organizations and systems. With nearly two decades of experience across sectors in social services, Jennifer is a leader with a keen ability to translate big picture ideas to actionable steps, and a gift for the stewardship of stories. Jennifer is a Registered Social Worker with a Masters in Indigenous Governance, and a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Conflict Resolution. Jennifer is also an accredited Gladue Writer and Sexual Health Facilitator. Jennifer worked for Manitoba Justice for a decade doing comprehensive complex case management, Court Ordered assessment and recommendations, and was an expert witness in Provincial and Court of King’s Bench related to Gladue and pre-sentencing assessment and recommendations. Jennifer went on to work at the Office of the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth (MACY) as an Advocacy Officer, advancing the rights and interests of children across the province. Jennifer has since worked for a First Nations government in the area of Indigenous rights and advocacy, as well as a consultant supporting organizations in developing capacity and serving the community. Jennifer is a post-secondary educator in the Faculty of Social Work and is a life-long learner currently pursuing a PhD in Social Work with research interests in community-based paticipatory research, decolonial feminist scholarship, decolonizing FASD, and justice. Jennifer is an avid community volunteer, currently sitting on the Board of Directors in the role of President for the Manitoba College of Social Workers, Board of Directors in the role of President for the St. Andrews Community Club, Board of Directors for the Manitoba FASD Coalition, and a network member for the Selkirk Harm Reduction Coalition.

Tristan (he/him) is a Metis and Settler person from Selkirk, Manitoba. Tristan is the Network Coordinator for the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network and has over a decade experience in housing advocacy and service delivery.