UBCM and the First Nations Leadership Council are pleased to announce that Kimberly Murray, Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools, will be one of the speakers at the Provincial Community to Community Forum on September 16, 2024.
Kimberly Murray is a member of the Kanehsatà:ke Mohawk Nation and was appointed as the Independent Special Interlocutor for a two-year term by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada in June of 2022. The Independent Special Interlocutor is to function independently and impartially, in a non-partisan and transparent manner, and to take part in conversations with Survivors, Indigenous families, and communities who are leading the Sacred work of recovering the missing children and unmarked burials. The Mandate involves speaking directly with those leading search and recovery work and with governments, churches and other individuals and organizations to help identify and remove existing barriers.
Murray was Ontario’s first-ever Assistant Deputy Attorney General for Indigenous Justice from 2015 to 2021, where she was responsible for creating a unit to work with Indigenous communities to revitalize their Indigenous laws and legal orders. In 2018-2019, Murray chaired the Expert Panel on Policing in Indigenous Communities, which produced the report Toward Peace, Harmony and Well-Being. From 2010 to 2015, she was the Executive Director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.