Roberta Jamieson

Roberta Jamieson (Featured Speaker) Biography: Roberta Jamieson holds many firsts. Jamieson is the first Canadian Indigenous Woman to earn a law degree; the first non-parliamentarian appointed an ex-officio member of a House of Commons Committee; the first woman Ombudsman of Ontario; and the first woman elected Chief of the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. Her work in non-adversarial conflict resolution has been recognized around the world. She received the Goodman Fellowship from the University of Toronto in 1991 for developing and promoting non-adversarial methods of conflict resolution and became the first recipient of the Mary Parker Follet Award in 1992. She received the Order of Canada in 1994, and was recently elected the North American Regional Vice-President of the International Ombudsman Institute in Buenos Aires, Brazil.