Taking the Next Step Towards Action: The LATA Roadmap for Reconciliation Partners
Come join us as we take the next step in moving from Land Acknowledgments to Action. It’s not easy stepping into our role as Treaty partners and partners for reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. We can go further together. CPJ has a new resource tool called the “LATA Roadmap for Reconciliation”. It’s participatory and interactive and holds the wisdom from interviews conducted with over 40 people involved with Canadian churches and faith communities working on issues of Indigenous justice.
Register for our event that will feature John Olthuis and two speakers, accomplished and experienced in this work. Together we will reflect on our journey that brought us here, envision together where working for Indigenous justice is calling us next, and workshop through a resource that will help us get there.
Presenters
John Olthuis is a Member of the Order of Canada, a CPJ co-founder, and a leading Indigenous rights lawyer in Canada. His new book, On Dismantling Settler Colonialism: An Insider’s Perspective on Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples, is the inspiration for CPJ’s current Reconciliation campaign, From Land Acknowledgements to Action.
Lori Ransom serves as Indigenous Consultant to the World Council of Churches and as a Reconciliation and Indigenous Justice Animator with the United Church of Canada (balancing her time between these two, part-time positions). Lori is a member of the Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn First Nation (near Eganville, Ontario, Canada) who has lived off-reserve for all of her life (Toronto, Ottawa, and Regina). Lori deepened her knowledge of and passion for the work of healing and reconciliation between settlers and Indigenous peoples after being appointed as the first Healing and Reconciliation Program Animator for The Presbyterian Church in Canada (PCC) and later as Senior Advisor, Church and Interfaith Relations, for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada.
Lori has had significant experience working with churches locally, nationally, and internationally. She is an ordained Elder of The Presbyterian Church in Canada and resides in downtown Toronto with her brother James and beloved Cockapoo, Finnegan.
Mackenzie Graham is a Policy and Government Engagement Lead with Mennonite Central Committee’s (MCC) Peace & Justice Office in Ottawa. After studying criminal justice and public policy at the University of Guelph, he developed a passion for restorative justice and addressing the systemic inequalities that affect access to justice. In his work with MCC, Mackenzie leads advocacy and government engagement related to MCC’s programs in Canada, including Indigenous Neighbours, Restorative Justice and Poverty Reduction.
Speakers
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Lori RansomIndigenous Consultant to the World Council of Churches and as a Reconciliation and Indigenous Justice Animator with the United Church of CanadaLori Ransom serves as Indigenous Consultant to the World Council of Churches and as a Reconciliation and Indigenous Justice Animator with the United Church of Canada. She is a member of the Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn First Nation who has lived off-reserve for all of her life.
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Mackenzie GrahamPolicy and Government Engagement Lead with Mennonite Central Committee's (MCC)Mackenzie Graham is a Policy and Government Engagement Lead with Mennonite Central Committee’s (MCC) Peace & Justice Office in Ottawa.
