Cross Cultural Bridging Specialist

Cindy Crowe is a cross cultural bridging specialist. Bridging cultures can be a challenge at times, but patience, understanding and excellent communication skills helps Cindy Crowe span the gap.

Cindy Crowe has been strengthened from her teachings through the Midewewin Lodge and her work with Waabi-Ma’iingan (Grey Wolf) Traditional Teaching Lodge. These teachings have introduced Cindy to important Spiritual aspects of community structure and have provided her with the background necessary to share those gifts with her clients.

This particular aspect of Cindy Crowe is very important to her personally and professionally and she continues to dedicate her traditional gifts to bridge cultural and communication gaps.

Some of the kinds of cross cultural work that Cindy is doing:

• Coordinated development activities for Waabi-Ma’iingan (Grey Wolf) Traditional Teaching Lodge including  management of all correspondence; funding applications; media releases; website; and, organization of all meetings including community, government, educational, Traditional and Spiritual ~ 2005 – present
• Coordinated Northern Table activities (now called Oski-Machiitawin) for Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) including Parks, Land Use Planning, Licensing & Permits and Mining between NAN Chiefs and the Province of Ontario ~ May 2007 – July 2008
• Conducted cross-cultural workshops for Outland Reforestation Junior Rangers and staff – 2006
• Conducted cross-cultural workshops for the Wikwemikong Trust in Wikwemikong Unceded Reserve – 2006
• Coordinated Community Placements across Northern Ontario for the Northern Ontario School of Medicine focusing on community and cultural experiences for fifty-six first-year medical students during the inaugural year of the school ~ 2005 – 2006
• Conducted a Pilot Project involving community placements between First Nation communities and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON and Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON) involving eight First Nation communities in North Eastern Ontario focusing on community and cultural experiences for sixteen first-year medical students ~ 2005
• Coordinated the development of an “Aboriginal Employment, Training and Education Resource Manual” with the North Superior Training Board, regional Aboriginal Partners and regional Non-Aboriginal Partners – 2004
• Organized, promoted and conducted four (4) provincial conferences on behalf of INAC to promote the Long Term Capital Plan to First Nations, Tribal Councils and government representatives across Ontario ~ 2004
• Coordinated a week-long relationship building workshop between the community and front-line workers of Neskantaga First Nation, Nishnawbe Aski Police Services, Ontario Provincial Police and NAN Managers – 2003