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Biography
Nancy Averill
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Nancy Averill is member of the Métis Nation of Ontario and a full-time community volunteer.
Nancy’s career has spanned the public, private and not-for profit sectors. At the Corporation of the City of Ottawa, where her career began in community development, she gained a healthy respect for the value of citizens’ participation in policy development.
At federal organizations such as the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy and the Prime Minister’s National Advisory Board on Science and Technology she undertook research on a host of public sector policy and management issues, always including local communities in the research processes. She has engaged aboriginal communities on all three coasts in natural resource policy development. As Director of Research at the Public Policy Forum she directed groundbreaking research on public service recruitment and leadership, public sector governance and accountability and youth voter participation. In addition, she advised the government of urban aboriginal participation.
As a volunteer Nancy chairs both Student Vote Canada and the Ottawa Advisory Board of the Women’s Executive Network. She is Vice-President of the Distress Centre of Ottawa and Region where she has initiated outreach to the local urban aboriginal population, is a director of Equal Voice, a national organization promoting the political participation of women and the Diva Foundation for Women’s Health. Nancy is also a cook in the Sunday Supper program of a local downtown church.
She holds a Masters degree in Public Administration and a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton University and a Diploma in Architectural Technology from Algonquin College. She has recently completed the Governance Essentials Program for Directors of Not-For-Profit Organizations at the Institute of Corporate Directors and the University of Ottawa.
Nancy is from a family of eight children from the Métis Nation of Red River. She is married and has three grown sons.
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