Barbara Filion

Program Officer for Culture, Canadian Commission for UNESCO

Barbara Filion is the Programme Officer for Culture, with the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. She has previously worked as a consultant and served as the Reconciliation Program Director at the Canadian Museums Association. Prior to that, she was the Director of Education at Working Assumptions, a national organization based in Berkeley, California, that uses art to examine social issues. Barbara has over 20 years of experience in the cultural field, with a strong focus on incorporating decolonization practices. She taught and was a thesis advisor in the Museum Studies Program, at JFK University in California and also served as the Associate Director of the Archaeology Museum at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. Barbara grew up in the region of La Mauricie in Quebec and is Pekuakamishkueu, citizen of the Innu First Nation of Mashteuiatsh through her father and grandmother.

Location

National Arts Centre, Fourth Stage
1 Elgin Street, Ottawa Canada