Indigenous leader Lori Campbell is leaving Waterloo
WATERLOO — The University of Waterloo is losing a campus and community leader, who is returning home to Saskatchewan for a new job and promotion.
Lori Campbell has been appointed associate vice-president at the University of Regina for Indigenous engagement. She currently directs the Waterloo Indigenous Student
Centre.
“I am excited to be able to come home and honoured to take on this new role,” Campbell said on Twitter. She starts her new job in Regina June 1.
Well-wishers filled her Twitter page with congratulations.
Campbell ran for the New Democratic Party in Waterloo in the last federal election in 2019. She lost to Liberal Bardish Chagger.
She recently earned an award for national leadership from a network of university women.
“When I was younger I never saw myself reflected in leadership positions and I hope I can inspire young Indigenous people to know they belong in leadership positions,” she wrote in November after earning the accolade.
Part of her job in Waterloo has been to foster the development of Indigenous youth and their skills, encouraging them to be ‘unapologetically Indigenous’ in reaching their academic goals.
Campbell is a two-spirit CreeMétis educator from Treaty 6 territory in northern Saskatchewan.
In a statement posted on LinkedIn she said it’s been an honour to work and study in Waterloo and she will “carry these relationships with me as I journey back to my territory.”