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Chrystal Toop is a Storyteller, Counselor, and member of the Pikwakanagan First Nation. Formerly Site Coordinator for Omamiwinini Pimadjwowin: The Algonquin Cultural Way Centre’s Kabeshinan Minitig Pavilion an Indigenous Art Gallery & Archeological Exhibit, Chrystal has experience with Indigenizing spaces and has worked with national and grassroots Indigenous organizations on issues related to best practices of homelessness, youth and women’s rights, criminal justice, maternal and family mental health, cultural education, Indigenous-led research, and information governance.
Chrystal holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Carleton University, a Healing and Wellness Counsellor Diploma, registration as a Social Services Worker, and recently completed Algonquin College's first online cohort of the Indigenous Tourism Entrepreneurship training program. She will embark on a Masters of Adult Education, Women’s Leadership & Community Development with St. Francis Xavier University, this coming spring.
A founder of Aunties on the Road, as well as the healing justice plantcestral healing project Wananoshka Mashkiki, Chrystal operates a social enterprise and community practice known as Blackbird Medicines and was recently featured in a CBC article about Indigenous Death Doulas.
Chrystal is humbled to provide coordination and support as a contracted Research Associate for the Mamiwi Maadaadizi initiative at Algonquin College’s Waterfront Campus in Pembroke, Ontario.
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Episode 144: Generational Healing & Empowerment with Chrystal Toop