Board Member Profiles
Doreen Spence
Doreen was born of Cree ancestry in Northern Alberta. She has represented her people and the values by which they live in an effective and exemplary manner for the past forty-five years. Drawing on her own experiences as an indigenous woman as well as those, peoples from across the world, Doreen is capable of addressing any issue that impacts on the Aboriginal community.
She travels extensively to present at numerous conferences around the world sharing her message of healing, tolerance, human rights, and the wisdom of First Nations traditional teachings. Doreen is the founder and executive director of Canadian Indigenous Women's Resource Institute. Prior to CIWRI, she was the founder and President of the Plains Cultural Survival School Society and was a senator at the University of Calgary. Internationally, Doreen is the Canadian representative to the United Nations Working Group of Indigenous Populations, and as part of that, she advocates on behalf of indigenous peoples worldwide. Doreen has been honored numerous times for her work, including being a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee for the 1000 Women of Peace project in 2005; ; receiving an International Award at the New Zealand Spiritual Elders Conference in 1992, along with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Doreen has opened hearts and minds around the world, and continues to do so, through her teachings, persistence, wisdom, and unconditional love. She strives to bring understanding between all nations.
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