Board Member Hadley Friedland is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law. She has a Child and Youth Care Diploma from Grant MacEwan College in and practiced in the child and family services field for a decade before completing her law degree at the University of Victoria in 2008. She went on to complete her graduate studies in law, which focused on revitalizing Cree legal traditions, at the University of Alberta. Hadley is co-lead of the Wahkohtowin Indigenous Law and Governance Lodge, a dedicated inter-disciplinary unit that upholds Indigenous law and governance through community led research and education. She was the first Research Director of the University of Victoria’s Indigenous Law Research Unit and has worked extensively with Indigenous communities across Canada to Identify and revitalize Indigenous Laws. She teaches and researches in the areas of Indigenous legal traditions, family law, child welfare law, Aboriginal law, criminal justice and theraputic jurisprudence. She is the author of the book, The Wetiko (Windigo) Legal Principles: Cree and Anishinabek Responses to Violence and Victimiztion, 2018, University of Toronto Press. She also serves on the board of Chimo Youth Retreat Centre and the Aseniwuche Winewak Nation Justice and Reconciliation Committee.