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Heather Dorries, Morgan Peters and David Stinson, RPP

Heather Dorries is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning and Centre for Indigenous Studies at the University of Toronto. She obtained her MScPl and PhD in Urban Planning at the University of Toronto, and worked for the City of Toronto before beginning her academic career. She has extensive experience in the realm of urban and environmental planning. Her research focuses on Indigenous planning and life in the urban context. These are themes she explores in her forthcoming edited collected Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Settler Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West (University of Manitoba Press) and her book Planning the End of the World: Indigenous Planning Theory and the Art of Refusal (under contract with the University of Toronto Press).  Heather is Anishinaabe and grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Morgan completed her MBA from the Schulich School of Business in 2018, graduating with distinction and a Certificate in Social Sector Management. She came to work for Shared Path in October 2018 after having completed several consulting contracts with Indigenous communities through Suslop Inc. Morgan is from Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where she spent several years working in community economic development with the Atlantic Association of Community Business Development Corporations.
 
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David Stinson is a Registered Professional Planner and a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners’ Indigenous Community Planning Committee. With expertise in rural development and land use policy, he has worked for public, NGO, and private sector organizations including the Maitland Valley Conservation Authority and the Kent County Planning Department. David is a professor at the Orillia campus of Laurentian University, and for 7 years has been the Community Planning Advisor for the Ogemawahj Tribal Council.  He has provided research and analysis on community economics, land development, and environmental planning, and is now a partner at Incite Planning.  He has recently been appointed to the Lake Simcoe Co-ordinating Committee.
 
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