About me
Kahontakwas Diane Longboat, B.A, B.Ed, M.Ed is a member of the Turtle Clan, Mohawk Nation at Six Nations Grand River Territory, Canada and a citizen of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Diane’s work is situated at the intersection of health, education and systems transformation based on traditional Indigenous epistemology. She is the founder of Soul of the Mother, a healing and teaching lodge on the shores of the Grand River and First Nations House, the Office of Indigenous Student Services and Programs at the University of Toronto. Since 2013, Diane has served as Elder for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Canada’s largest and leading institution for clinical services and research for mental well-being. Today, as Senior Manager of Strategic Initiatives, in Shkaabe Makwa Centre at CAMH, her work involves organizational strategy for designing culturally grounded services to First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples and advancing the CAMH Truth and Reconciliation Action Plan. Diane is a Director of HIP (Honouring Indigenous People)