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Alissa Klingbaum

Junior Fellow
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Alissa holds a Master of Public Health in Social and Behavioural Health Sciences from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at University of Toronto. Prior to joining Wellesley Institute, her work has spanned policy advocacy, research support, and knowledge translation roles in both academic and non-profit settings, including Heart and Stroke Foundation, Stop Marketing to Kids Coalition, and the PROOF food insecurity research program at University of Toronto. She is currently Director of Research for the Young Canadians Roundtable on Health, an organization mobilizing youth-led initiatives on child and adolescent health in Canada. Alissa is dedicated to reducing health inequities in GTA communities and beyond, with a special interest in early childhood development and research communication.

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We would like to acknowledge this sacred land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. It has been a site of human activity for 15,000 years. This land is the territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.

Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the community, on this territory.

Revised by the Elders Circle (Council of Aboriginal Initiatives) on November 6, 2014

In the spirit of equity and inclusion, if we can improve on this statement, please contact us. Thank you.