Marilyn Poitras is a Harvard Law School graduate who has studied with traditional knowledge keepers and communities from all over the world. Marilyn sees opportunity everywhere as a lawyer, negotiator, professor, and community builder. She relies on life experience to connect people and ideas through culture, community, music and story. She is a voice for the hidden figures of our society through her work with women’s issues and rights.

In this conversation we talk about the cost of buying into the perceived colonial experiment and what it means to look at our individual privilege. We also talk about the challenges faced by Indigenous women in Canada and why Indigenous women are the ‘canaries in the coal mine’, foreshadowing what’s to come when a society loses empathy. As with any conversation with Marilyn, she opens the door through traditional teachings on how we might begin to move forward both individually and collectively by caring for one another.