b'Meet the Diversity, Equity, Inclusionand Anti-Racism Services Leadership Team Bobbie-Jo LeclairMichelle Jean-PaulDivisional Vice-Principal of Indigenous Education, Intercultural(she/her/elle)Understandings and Transformation, Bobbie-Jo Leclair isJoining the LRSD team in January 2022 as the Divisional Nehiyaw from One Arrow First Nation in SaskatchewanPrincipal of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism Services, through her father and Mtis on her mothers side. Bobbie-Jo isMichelles experience as an educator and school leader inform passionate about Indigenous education and enjoys being activelyher work. From kindergarten to university in English and French, involved in supporting transformative changes in Indigenousher graduate studies focus on issues of equity in education, her education through professional learning and advocacy. As ancommunity work, and her experiences as a second-generation educator for 19 years, she has worked in various capacities inCanadian and racialized person. She continues to work to Indigenous education. Through her various experiences, she develop her allyship with other communities that are historically has had the opportunity to collaborate, develop and facilitateunderserved and underrepresented by the school system through learning related to Indigenous perspectives for educators building relationships.across Manitoba.In November 2022, Michelle Jean-Paul was appointed to Darcy CormackAssistant Superintendent of Staff Services. In this role, Michelle Darcy Cormack was appointed to the role of Assistantwill support the development and implementation of a multi-year, Superintendent, responsible for Diversity, Equity and Inclusionequity-based employment strategy focused on anti-racism/anti-Services, in October 2021. Prior to that, Darcy worked asoppressive education, and restorative practices.a Divisional Principal, helping create a welcoming learning environment that honours community and builds on theWhat is positionality?strengths of students. She has worked closely with the RenOur identities are complex and unique. Who we are influences Deleurme Centre (RDC) team and the LRSD Indigenousthe way we think, feel and act. Positionality refers to how our Education Team to help develop a culture of equity and inclusionidentities shape our experiences and how differences in social within the division. In 2020, she was instrumental in launchingposition or power can impact those experiences. Understanding the LRSD Learning from Home School to meet the needs ofour positionality helps us to better understand the ways in families whose children could not attend in-person classes due which the experiences of others might differ from our own. This to the pandemic. is important in creating a culture of equity and inclusion.6'