Global Friday Presents

Brandi Morin, Award-winning Cree, Iroquois, French Journalist

Abstract:

Award-winning Cree, Iroquois, French journalist Brandi Morin draws on personal experiences of overcoming setbacks and adversity that parallel challenges she faces in her career. Morin shares strategies for maintaining perseverance and passion in the face of covering deeply impeded oppression, racism and human rights violations in Canada. 
 

Speaker Bio:

 
Brandi Morin, an acclaimed Cree/Iroquois/French journalist from Treaty 6 territory in Alberta, Canada. Brandi has spent over 10 years amplifying Indigenous voices and shedding light on important stories that have catalyzed change and reconciliation in Canada. 

She is known for her clear-eyed and empathetic reporting on Indigenous oppression in North America. She is also a survivor of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls crisis and uses her experience to tell the stories of those who did not survive the rampant violence.

 Her most notable work has appeared in publications and on networks including National Geographic, The BBC, Al Jazeera English, the Guardian, VICE, Rolling Stone Magazine, the Toronto Star, the New York Times, Canadaland, Huffpost, Indian Country Today Media Network, the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network National News, and CBC Indigenous. Brandi won a Human Rights Reporting award from the Canadian Association of Journalists in April of 2019 for her work with the CBC’s Beyond 94 project tracking the progress of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action.