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Dr. Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard is a Canadian and Anishinaabe educator and advocate for Indigenous women's rights. She is Canada's first Indigenous Trudeau Scholar and has served as Director of Trent University's First Peoples House of Learning since 2016.[1]
She is best known for her roles as President of the Native Women's Association of Canada from July 2015 to September 2016 and as President the Ontario Native Women's Association from 2003 to 2021.[2] [3] She was awarded the Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers in 2018.[4]
Biography
Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard is the daughter of Indigenous women's rights advocate Jeannette Corbiere Lavell and David Lavell.[5][6] She is a member of Wiikwemkoong First Nation on Manitoulin Island.[7]
Lavell-Harvard received an honorary Doctor of Education from Nipissing University in 2016.[6]
She is co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Peterborough Community Health Centre.[8]
Published Works
- “Until Our Hearts Are On the Ground": Aboriginal Mothering, Oppression, Resistance and Rebirth with Jeannette Corbiere Lavell (Demeter Press, 2006) ISBN: 1550144618[9]
- Mothers of the Nations: Indigenous Mothering as Global Resistance, Reclaiming and Recovery with Kim Anderson (Demeter Press, 2014) ISBN: 9781927335451[10]
- Forever Loved: Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada with Jennifer Brant (Demeter Press, 2016) ISBN: 9781772580204[11]
- Rematriating Justice: Honouring the Lives of Our Indigenous Sisters with Jennifer Brant (Demeter Press, 2024) ISBN: 9781772585032[12]