Adam North Peigan
President
Adam North Peigan
Adam is from Treaty 7 and is Blackfoot from the Piikani First Nation in Southern, Alberta. Adam is a product of the Residential School and a survivor of the Sixties Scoop. Adam’s career has been spent in advocating for Indigenous people and creating awareness of the colonialism and oppressive actions as a result of government policies being imposed on the Indigenous people in Canada. Adam is the past President of the “Sixties Scoop Indigenous Society of Alberta” (SSISA). Through Adam’s leadership SSISA was able to work with the Alberta Government in the issuance of an apology from former Premier Rachel Notley on May 28th, 2018 to all survivors of the Sixties Scoop.
Adam has been an educator at the University of Alberta, University of Calgary and University of British Columbia. Adam has served public office as a Governor to the South Fraser Health Region in BC and also as an elected member of the Piikani First Nation Chief and Council. Adam has been instrumental in the development of an Indigenous Training module for the College of Alberta Registered Nurses Association, the Alberta Teachers Association and the City of Calgary Police. Adam has been employed in senior management positions with Tribal Governments and the not for profit sector in Alberta and BC. Adam has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee Medal for his significant contributions to the Province of Alberta in moving reconciliation forward for all Canadians.
Currently Adam is the Senior Engagement Advisor in the Indigenous Wellness Core working with the Wisdom Council at Alberta Health Services.
Dr. Allyson Stevenson
Vice President
Dr. Allyson Stevenson
Allyson Stevenson is Métis scholar and adoptee whose family is from Kinistino, SK, raised in Regina. She joined the Indigenous Studies Department at the University of Saskatchewan as the Gabriel Dumont Chair of Métis Research in July 2020. She obtained her PhD in History from the University of Saskatchewan in 2015. From 2016-2017 she was the inaugural Aboriginal Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Guelph where she worked on developing a historical analysis of Indigenous women’s political organizing in Saskatchewan during the 1970’s. From January 2018 to June 2020, she was an assistant professor at the University of Regina in the department of Politics and International Studies and a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples and Global Social Justice. Her current research specializes in histories of Indigenous women’s political organizing, the Sixties Scoop, Metis history, and settler-colonialism. Her book, Intimate Integration: The Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship was published with the University of Toronto Press in Dec. 2020. She is a mother to four amazing children and lives in her Métis family’s ancestral homeland after coming home in 1998. She is proud that her children are the seventh generation of Fidler descendants to reside in Flett’s Springs Sk.
Nina Segalowitz
Treasurer/Secretary
Nina Segalowitz
Nina was born in Fort Smith, NWT, and is Inuvialuit and Dene. In addition to being a proud mother of three, Nina has been a community service worker for the past 25 years. She is a Cultural Consultant for the Canadian Armed Forces, the City of Montreal Police Department, in addition to universities and schools. She also facilitates the KAIROS Blanket Exercise, which includes sharing her experiences as a Sixties Scoop Survivor. Presently, Nina holds a B.A. in Applied Human Relations and works as a Cultural Consultant. Nina was appointed to the Legacy of Hope Foundation’s Board in January 2018.
Hatav Shalileh
Board Member
Hatav Shalileh
As a Settler in Canada, and specifically on the un-ceded Algonquin Anishinaabeg territory known as Ottawa as of six-years-old, Hatav Shalileh is motivated to bring together her background and experiences in social work, project management, event-planning and fundraising, policy and strategy work, data analysis, and research and reporting to support the work of the Legacy of Hope Foundation. Serving on two other Boards and engaged with other community services and organizations in Ottawa, Hatav will leverage her networks and skills to expand the critically important work of the Legacy of Hope Foundation in raising awareness about the history and continued intergenerational impacts of the Residential and Day School system and subsequent Sixties Scoop on Indigenous Survivors, their descendants, and communities, with a view to prompt learning, action, and Reconciliation, locally and nationally.
