Terrellyn Fearn is the Project Director of Turtle Island Institute, a global Indigenous social innovation think and do tank - a teaching lodge enabling transformative change. She brings wisdom and understanding of Indigenous well-being and community building through rematriation and Indigenous ways of knowing. Terrellyn’s work over the last 30 years has focused on advancing social justice and systems change in the area of health, gender-based violence, education, and child welfare having worked with over 400 rural and urban Indigenous communities throughout Turtle Island.

In 2017, she was the Director of Outreach and Support Services for the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and led a 2.5 year process for family members and survivors of violence to share their truth. She is a MEd. candidate at York University and a Research Associate at the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation & Resilience (WISIR) focusing on understanding complexity theory, ethical space of engagement, Indigenous feminism, and healing centered design. She sits on the Indigenous Advisory Circle for the Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime focused on the decolonization of the Canadian criminal justice system.

Resources from the episode

Join Turtle Island Institute Virtual Teaching Lodge 

https://turtle-island-lodge.mn.co/share/SlH9yMlZxJZkXeCd

Care and Systems Change Dialogues 

https://youtube.com/@turtleislandinstitute-indi6341

National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls final report 

https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/

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