Andrea Menard is the Indigenous Initiatives Liaison at the Law Society of Alberta, and is an urban Métis whose family originally came from the Red River Settlement in Manitoba. She obtained her law degree from UBC in 2004 and practiced in a small firm before working on-reserve for First Nation’s Treaty rights in Williams Lake British Columbia for the T’exelc Nation. From there, Andrea moved to Edmonton, and was the Director of Indigenous Academic Services at the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta where she coached the Kawaskimhon Moot, tutored first year law students, and led the faculty on Indigenous initiatives. Andrea also worked for the Alberta and BC governments in regards to Indigenous traditional land rights and natural resource initiatives. She was also most recently the Indigenous Initiatives Manager at Legal Aid Alberta where she created Indigenous restorative justice programming and inter-cultural training for lawyers. Andrea has a Masters of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School (York University) in the area of Dispute Resolution with a focus on Indigenous laws and communication methodologies.