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From career planning and student financing to housing and childcare – Sask Polytech is here to help you along the way. We are available to connect with you by email, phone or scheduled Zoom meetings.

Current or enrolled students can request an appointment with one of the student advisors in their campus city. Those interested in becoming a student can connect with our community relations team for assistance with career planning and applications. If you are unsure of where to start, please send your questions to indigenous@saskpolytech.ca.

Indigenous Strategy

Deanna Speidel

Director

Biography

Anita Cameron

Indigenous strategic relations manager

Administrative Offices

Biography

Anita Cameron

Anita Cameron was born and raised in Saskatoon and is a member of the Beardy’s and Okemasis Cree Nation in Treaty 6 territory. Higher education and employment have been instilled in her from a young age as the means to a better life and to ensure present and future Indigenous learners can have supportive, positive learning experiences and environments leading to lifelong learning and open the doors of opportunity.

She is a graduate of the Indian Teacher Education program and started her career a classroom teacher in Beardy’s and Okemasis in 2000; seconded to the Office of the Treaty Commissioner in 2004 to work in public education with the Speaker’s Bureau, Teaching Treaties in the Classroom, and the beginnings of the provincial Treaty Learning Network. Anita transitioned to be an instructor in the Adult Basic Education programs for Southeast Regional College, working in numerous FN communities in Treaty 4 territory. In November 2014 Anita became employed at Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Moose Jaw Campus, as a Literacy & Adult Education instructor. She moved to Indigenous Strategy in December 2018 as the Indigenous Student Centre coordinator at Moose Jaw campus and continued the same role at Prince Albert campus until her she accepted the role of the Sask Polytech Indigenous nursing advisor in the School of Nursing.

Anita brings a varied background of experiences and opportunities from over a decade long volunteer with the SaskTel Indigenous Youth Awards, to being a Sask Polytech student with the Leadership Skills and Indigenous Leadership Skills certificates and just began the venture into learning about patient oriented care research with her colleagues from CHRIS.