The Inclusive Workplace Series – Module 6: Truth and Reconciliation Practices in the Workplace

The session will be facilitated by Lauren Bernardi and Kris Noakes who works as a community advocate. Hannah Tarr will also join in on the conversations around Land Acknowledgements. Tanille Turner will be moderating the session.

Learn more about our guest speaker, Kris Noakes:

Kris is a citizen of the Anishinabek Nation and a member of Nipissing First Nation and a community advocate at the Municipal, Provincial, Federal levels. Her diverse experience includes leading an Indigenous NGO, building Indigenous services in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). For almost 3 decades, she has also served as a Law Enforcement Officer. Kris has supported community initiatives through Public Appointments on the City of Mississauga and City of Brampton’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committees and the Museums of Mississauga Advisory Committee. Kris has served as a member of the Region of Peel’s Homelessness Partnering Strategy Community Advisory Board (CAB), the First Nation, Métis and Inuit Advisory Circle for the Peel District School Board (PDSB), the Toronto Area Education Leads for the Indigenous Education Office of Ministry of Education and as a Director for Art Gallery of Mississauga. She has been a guest speaker at various universities and colleges, national sports events, corporations, governments and at the United Nations General Assembly.

Kris currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Hamilton Community Legal Clinic, on the Board of Directors at Theatre Aquarius, the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce Dundas Board Chair and has recently finished her second term appointment as a member of the Federal Judicial Advisory Committee for the GTA. As a person living with the terminal disease ALS, she is a member of ALS Canada’s Board of Directors and Chair of the Hamilton based charity event, the Revolution Ride.