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A 4-part webinar series to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of TRC Calls for Action

From October to April, Crystal Fraser and Sara Komarnisky will deliver a four-part webinar series organized to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Calls for Action.

All four webinars are free for CES members.

• The first session (October 22) emphasizes starting with truths by sharing the history of residential schooling and its relevance to evaluation practice (information and registration).
• The second session (December 8) focuses on learning from survivors and respectfully incorporating their narratives into daily life.
• The third session (February 9) addresses Treaty Relationships in Practice, explaining that all Canadians are treaty people and discussing how to integrate treaty roles into professional practice.
• Finally, the fourth session (April 13), Taking Action, encourages participants to identify ways to move reconciliation forward by referencing major calls to action, such as those from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the MMIWG inquiry.

The series as a whole aims to build evaluators' capacities to use practices that support reconciliation and build stronger relationships among Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.

CRYSTAL GAIL FRASER is Gwichyà Gwich’in from Inuvik, Northwest Territories, and an associate professor of history and Native studies at the University of Alberta. A community-engaged scholar of Indian residential schools, she is the author of By Strength, We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik, Northwest Territories.

SARA KOMARNISKY is a settler of Ukrainian, Irish, and Italian ancestry who grew up in Holden, Alberta. She holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of British Columbia and is currently a researcher, public scholar, and arts administrator based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Sara is the author of Mexicans in Alaska: An Ethnography of Mobility, Place, and Transnational Life.