JESSICA BOLDUC
Area of Expertise: Advocacy
"A country, where the languages that belong to the land, the languages that are Indigenous to here, are celebrated for the resilience and ingenuity that they bring to this country, rather than treated as afterthoughts and tokens - that is the Canada that I desire, and I need Canadians to desire it too. "
Jessica is the Executive Director of the 4Rs Youth Movement, a collaboration of fourteen national organizations that are working with Indigenous and non-Indigenous young people who are coming together to cultivate understanding and action in support of a reconciled future. Jessica is Anishinaabe-French from Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Batchewana First Nation, and has lived in Northern Ontario her whole life.