The Advisory Board

Marjorie White
Chair, Aboriginal Mother’s Centre
Co-chair, Aboriginal Youth/Vancouver Police Working Group
Former Executive Director, Circle of Eagles

Ric Beairsto
Documentary Filmmaker
(over 30 documentaries including Walking in Pain)

Mary Brown
Coordinator, Heiltsuk
Restorative Justice Program

Diana Day
Aboriginal Health Strategic Initiatives,
Vancouver Coastal Health

Shawnah Fossen
Director, LifeSkills Centre,
PHS Community Services Society

Hendrik Hoekema
Executive Director,
Vancouver Eastside Educational Enrichment Society (VEEES)
Former Director of Simon Fraser University’s Prison Education
& Native Education Programs

Captain Michael F. Harris
Director of Fundraising & Public Relations

Dr. Robert Ley, PhD
Clinical & Forensic Psychologist
Associate Professor, Psychology, SFU

Dr. Gabor Mate, MD
Physician & author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts:
Close Encounters with Addiction

Eliza McCullough
Coordinator, Yayem Digital Storytelling Project
Atira Women’s Resource Society

Christine Parnell-Smith
Vancouver Aboriginal Transformative
Justice Services

Dr. Penny Parry
Former Child & Youth Advocate, City of Vancouver
& Former Director, Child & Youth Care program,
University of Victoria

Marilyn Slett
Chief Councillor, Heiltsuk Tribal Council

Charlene Smoke
Executive Assistant,
First Nations Education Streering Committee

Patrick Stewart, M.Arch
President,
National Aboriginal Housing Association
Chair, Aboriginal Homeless Steering Committee