Charlene Bearhead

Charlene Bearhead is the Vice President, Learning and Reconciliation at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. She is a mother, grandmother, auntie, educator, Indigenous education advocate and author with over 35 years of regional, national, and international experience. 

She has served on the Indigenous Education Advisory Circle for the National Film Board of Canada, education advisory for the Canadian Geographic Indigenous People’s Atlas of Canada and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Indigenous Education working group.  

Charlene also served as education coordinator for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and the first education lead for both the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba and the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at University of British Columbia.