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Former MMIWG commissioner Marilyn Poitras on her resignation
Marilyn Poitras says she stepped down as a commissioner for the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls due to issues with the "current structure."
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Biography
Marilyn Poitras was born and raised in Saskatchewan. Her teachings come from her family, She has been a student of Indigenous law in Cree, Inuit, Metis and Dene communities as well as in her international work in Mindanao. Living and learning with others informs her sensibility to cross cultural education, governance and negotiation and relationship making.
Poitras’s work with community, leadership, students, and elders provides her with a strong foundation for working across the table on issues experienced in Indigenous communities and through governance in Canada today. She has worked with federal, provincial and Indigenous levels of governance and has played a role in education for all parties in a number areas.
Poitras obtained her LL.M. at Harvard Law School, her LL.B. at the University of Saskatchewan and is an alumni of the Native Law Centre Summer Program. She has created a number of College and University programs covering, legal, policy and resource and financial management for Indigenous communities as well as mental health courses and lectures. Design thinking and ethical space making are processes for engagement she uses in her work, life and teaching.