Staff

Melissa Ireland, Director, Indigenous Student Services

A Mississauga Ojibway woman with heritage from Curve Lake First Nation, Melissa oversees the Indigenous Student Centres; services and programs at the Waterloo and Brantford campuses. Melissa is also a proud Laurier alumna and a passionate student affairs professional with a desire to integrate Indigenous ways of seeing, being, doing and knowing within university systems.

E: mireland@wlu.ca
T: 519.884.0710 x4190

Emily Daniel, Indigenous Student Support Coordinator, Waterloo Campus

Emily is Anishinaabe Kwe with lineage from Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory. She works with community and university partners to provide various supports to Indigenous students at Laurier. Emily also plans and coordinators academic, cultural, and social programming offered at the Waterloo campus Indigenous Student Centre.

E: edaniel@wlu.ca 
T: 519.884.0710 x4897

Margaret Neveau, Indigenous Student Support Coordinator, Brantford Campus

Margaret is Anishinaabekwe from Batchewana First Nation located on the Eastern shores of Lake Superior. She has over 10 years of experience providing cultural, social, physical and emotional support to students – which is vital to her role. Margaret’s Anishinaabe name is Neegaabeeshbesingkwe, which translates to mean ‘water that falls woman.’

E: mneveau@wlu.ca 
T: 519.884.0710 x5884

Corri Daniels, Indigenous Events Support Coordinator

Corri Daniels is a Cree sixties scoop survivor from Gordon First Nation in Treaty 4 Territory. Corri’s role includes organizing key flagship events such as the Indigenist Research Symposium, weekly soup lunches and planning Indigenous Education Week activities aimed at promoting Indigenous education to the campus and community.

E: codaniels@wlu.ca 
T: 519.884.0710 x4313