Barbara Filion
Programme Officer for Culture, Canadian Commission for UNESCO
Barbara Filion is the Programme Officer for Culture, with the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. She has previously worked as a consultant and served as the Reconciliation Program Director at the Canadian Museums Association. Prior to that, she was the Director of Education at Working Assumptions, a national organization based in Berkeley, California, that uses art to examine social issues. Barbara has over 20 years of experience in the museum field, with a strong focus on incorporating Indigenous voices perspectives and decolonization practices. She taught and was a thesis advisor in the Museum Studies Program, at JFK University in California and also served as the Associate Director of the Archaeology Museum at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. Barbara is of mixed heritage, she grew up in the region of La Mauricie in Quebec and is a citizen of Pekuakamiulnuatsh First Nation (Ilnu, Mashteuiatsh).
