My name is Gisela Becker, and I am the Innu Midwifery Implementation Coordinator. I have been a midwife for many years and love working in Indigenous, northern, and remote communities!  I believe in self-determination of Indigenous peoples including strengthening the health care system to be culturally safe, inclusive, and equitable.

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When I first arrived in Canada, I experienced the immense significance of returning birth to an Inuit community in the NWT what became later Nunavut. At the same time, I realized how limited and unsustainable the program was without Indigenous midwives providing culturally safe

midwifery care to individuals and families in the

community. I also learned that Indigenous

midwifery and community births contribute to

the healing of people and communities from

the traumas of the past.