Karine Duhamel is Anishinaabe-Métis and holds a doctorate in history from the University of Manitoba. She was the director of research for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, which released its final report in 2019. She is now a public servant working to implement the inquiry’s Calls for Justice, as well as a volunteer member of several boards working on tackling the legacies of colonization in Canada.