Dr. Pamela Palmater is an award-winning Mi’kmaw lawyer, author, and social justice activist from Eel River Bar First Nation who has worked to advance native education, sovereignty, and nation-building for the past 25 years.

Pam is Chair of Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University, but she’s also a respected podcast host, a blogger, and her latest book - Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence – has just been published. In this episode, she talks to Jen and Catherine about the importance of her family in fueling her activism, the systemic racism she has battled her entire life, but also the very real hope she feels for the future.