Board of directors
The board
Of the Wapikoni board of directors’ nine members, six belong to First Peoples, accounting for an Indigenous representation of two-thirds of our board members.
Melissa Mollen Dupuis
Innu, Chair – Forest Campaign Manager, David Suzuki Foundation
Manon Barbeau
Vice-Chair – Founding President of Wapikoni
Patricia Auclair
Huron-Wendat, Secretary-Treasurer – Deputy Executive Director, Indigenous Tourism Québec
André Dudemaine
Innu, Director – Artistic Director, International First Peoples’ Festival and Land InSights
Alexandre Bacon
Innu, Director – Director, President, Founder and Speaker, Ashukan Stratégies
Catherine Boivin
Atikamekw Nehirowisiw, Director – Multidisciplinary artist, member of the collective
Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush
Innu, Director – Filmmaker and artist, member of the collective
Émilie Ruffin
Director – Equity, diversity and inclusion advisor, Polytechnique Montréal
Véronique Guèvremont
Director – Full professor at Université Laval’s Faculty of Law and holder of the UNESCO Chair on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
