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Aboriginal Steering Committee
The SFU Aboriginal Steering Committee reports to the Provost and Vice-President, Academic. The Committee serves as a vehicle for communication across faculties and other units, facilitates liaison with the Aboriginal community and is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the SFU Aboriginal Strategic Plan. Read the Aboriginal Steering Committee Terms of Reference.
This list includes senior administration, faculty, staff, Elder(s) and student representation, as well as off-campus community members from Indigenous organizations, local First Nations and government. This list will be amended when committee members change.
In no particular order, the current Aboriginal Steering Committee for 91ÅÝܽ is composed of the following members:
Aboriginal Reconciliation Council (ARC)
Co-chairs: Chris (Syeta’xtn) Lewis, SFU Alumnus and Kris Magnusson, Dean of the Faculty of Education.
Members
- Kyle Bobiwash, graduate student representative
- Joanne Curry, vice-president, external relations
- Sandie Dielissen, graduate student research assistant
- Katy Ellsworth, project manager
- Elder Margaret George, Tsleil-Waututh Nation
- Marcia Guno, former director, Indigenous Student Centre
- Ron Johnston, director, Office for Aboriginal Peoples
- William Lindsay, former director, Office for Aboriginal Peoples
- Aoife MacNamara, former dean, Faculty of Communication, Art, and Technology
- Dean Mellow, associate professor, Department of Linguistics
- Susan Rhodes, director, of university curriculum and institutional liaison
- Kristiana Sibson, logistics coordinator
- Karen Rose Thomas, undergraduate research assistant
- Sheryl Thompson, SFU undergraduate representative
- Amy Yang, logistics coordinator
- Eldon Yellowhorn, chair, First Nations Studies Program
Reconciliation Working Group
- Ron Johnston, director, Office for Aboriginal Peoples and co-facilitator
- Sobhana Jaya-Madhavan, associate vice-president, external relations and co-facilitator
- Joanne Curry, vice-president, external relations
Please direct any questions concerning the committee to Mr. Ron Johnston, Director, Office for Aboriginal Peoples & Chair, Aboriginal Steering Committee, 91ÅÝܽ at ronaldj@sfu.ca.