1455 de Maisonneuve W., room H-110 (main floor auditorium), Montreal

This event is FREE and open to the general public.

LaVerne Monette is the Executive Director of the Ontario Aboriginal AIDS Strategy. She will be speaking on the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on first nation communities in Canada. This lecture is co-sponsored by Concordia University’s Center for Native Education.

BIOGRAPHY:
LaVerne Monette, B.A., LLB, is a two-spirit Ojibway originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is the Executive Director of the Ontario Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Strategy, a provincial AIDS service organization whose mandate is to provide HIV/AIDS information, health promotion and program and service supports for off-reserve Aboriginal people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS, their partners, families and communities.

She is a co-founder and past Board Member of 2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations and of the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network. She is on the Board of Directors for the Prisoners with AIDS Action Support Network and sits as a member of the National Aboriginal Council on HIV/AIDS, the Ontario Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and is member of the Provincial Advisory Committee to the Ontario HIV and Substance Use Training Program.

Prior to her work in HIV/AIDS, LaVerne worked in a number of diverse fields including positions such as the Director of Investigations and Legal Services for Ombudsman Ontario, the Executive Coordinator for the Indian Commission of Ontario, a tripartite negotiations mechanism for the federal, provincial and First Nations governments in Ontario and various community-based positions working in a variety of issue areas with Aboriginal community groups in Ontario.

For more information: (514) 848-2424 ext. 7998 or hiva...@alcor.concordia.ca