Serving Your Community
On a Board of Directors/Committees
Join this panel to hear how serving on a board of directors makes an impact in your community and teaches you leadership skills.
Meet the Speakers
Kirsten Maides
President, Whitehorse Aboriginal Women's Circle
Kirsten Maides, of the Métis Nation, has always been involved in her community. Whether it be in Faro where she grew up, or her current home of Whitehorse, Kirsten prides herself in being both a leader and a helper. Kirsten has a long resume of work experiences, which are mostly related to the Social Services. Kirsten is currently employed at Teegatha’Oh Zheh as their Program Coordinator, and is a proud community ambassador for the #moosehidecampaign.
Adanchilla Pauls
Moccasin Trailblazers
My name is Adanchilla Pauls. Adanchilla is my traditional name which means strong, powerful little women. I come from the Tahltan and Tlingit nations and am a proud member of the Champagne and Ashiak First Nations. I am 17 years old and graduating this year. I am a beader and have my own business called Adanchilla Designs and have been beading since I was 6 years old. I was taught by the matriarchs in my life. During my life I have found passion in art, helping others and education are some to mention. In my educational journey I have enjoyed learning about the education system and focused on the inter-generational complexities me and others have as Indigenous people and how to navigate through that to create a better education system. I am a part of a group called the moccasin trail blazers that do just that! Talking and thinking of ways to make education better and trying to make a change in the system.
Aja Mason
Yukon Status of Women Council
Aja was born and raised on the overlapping traditional territories of the Carcross/Tagish First Nation and Kwanlin Dun First Nation and is the Executive Director of the Yukon Status of Women Council, a small NGO focused on promoting gender equality and social justice through research, education and policy analysis. Her diverse educational background includes a B.Sc. in Neuroscience and Philosophy of Science, a diploma in Northern Sciences, and she is currently completing an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on the correlation between extractive industry activity and rates of domestic and sexualized violence in the Yukon.
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Aja brings a Yukon-grown, interdisciplinary and critical perspective to social justice research in the north.