Shiann Whitebean is looking forward to making a contribution on the newly created Indigenous Directions Leadership Group. “My role is to share my experience as an Indigenous community member and to ensure that student voices have a central place within the decisions and directions of the university,” says Whitebean, a Wolf Clan member of the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) Nation at Kahnawà:ke. The undergraduate student in the First Peoples Studies program has been a student support worker and volunteer at the university’s Aboriginal Student Resource Centre. Whitebean founded and is currently president of the First Peoples Studies Member Association. She also a founder and advisor to the Indigenous Student Council, which focuses on First Nations, Inuit and Métis students at Concordia. “This new group will help Concordia facilitate lasting respectful relationships with local Indigenous communities that will foster new and innovative educational opportunities and inspire research collaborations for many years to come,” she says.