Guest Speaker: Beverley Jacobs, Ph. D. Candidate, University of Calgary, Mohawk Nation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, Bear Clan
Title: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Date: Monday, February 29, 2016
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Venue: Moot (Room 1100)
Lecture open to all
About Beverley Jacobs:
Beverley lives and practices law at her home community of Six Nations of the Grand River Territory in Southern Ontario. She is currently in the last stages of completing an interdisciplinary PhD at the University of Calgary that includes Law, Indigenous Wholistic Health and Indigenous Research Methodologies. The title of her thesis is “Impacts of Industrial Development on the Wholistic Health of the Mohawk Peoples of Akwesasne: A Human Responsibility and Rights Solution”. Bev obtained a Bachelor of Law Degree from the University of Windsor in 1994 and a Masters of Law Degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 2000.
Beverley is also a consultant/researcher/writer/public speaker/lecturer and she is a former President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada (elected 2004 to 2009). She currently sits as a member of the National Aboriginal Advisory Council to the Corrections Services Canada and as a member of the Kekunwemkunawak "Keeper of the Vision" at the Okimaw Ochi Healing Lodge in Saskatchewan. She is an Aboriginal Advisory Member to an international organization called Save The Children Canada and volunteers on many other committees.
Bev's passion is about peacefulness and safety of Indigenous peoples. For the past 20 or so years, much of her work has focussed on anti-violence work including advocacy for families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and educating the public about the history and impacts of colonization, which has resulted in the historic traumas that are occurring to Indigenous peoples, specifically Indigenous women and girls today. In October 2008, Beverley was one of fifty women recognized by several Canadian peace organizations for her work and dedication to further a culture of peace in Canada. In November, 2008, she became a recipient of the Governor General’s Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case, in recognition of her contribution to the advancement of Aboriginal women’s equality. In May, 2010, she received a Circle of Honour Esquao Award from the Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women in Edmonton, Alberta.
She is mother of Ashley and grandmother of Nicholas (14), Tessa (12), Bryson (7) and Kenna (5) who live at her home at Six Nations Grand River Territory. She is partner to Patrick Sandy, Mohawk Nation, Turtle Clan.