Ms. Redfern is an Indigenous businesswoman involved in high-tech and innovation and actively engaged in transformative technologies in telecommunications, transportation, and energy. She is the COO of CanArctic Inuit Networks Inc. and is committed to building 5000 km of marine fibre optic cable into Canada's Arctic to improve telecommunications in Inuit Nunangat and Nunavut significantly. Madeleine is also the CEO of Arctic Marine Systems, which will transform segments of SednaLink fibre optic cable into a SMART (Science Monitoring And Reliable Telecommunications) cabled observatory.
Ms. Redfern is President of Ajungi Group (also operating as Ajungi Arctic Consulting), Chair of Nunavut Legal Services Board; Member of the Indigenous Working Group on Small Modular Reactors, Northern Director of Arctic360 (Canada’s only Arctic Think-tank), President of Canadian Arctic Innovation Association, Vice-President of Nunavut Inuit Business Council, Advisor to Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Trudeau Foundation Board Member (former Trudeau Foundation Mentor); Co-Chair with Gordon Munk Arctic Security Program; Board member of Maliiganik Legal Aid, President of Amautiit: Nunavut Inuit Women’s Association. Madeleine is from Iqaluit, Nunavut and a graduate of the Akitsiraq Law School with an LLB from the University of Victoria. She was the first Inuk to be given a Supreme Court of Canada clerkship.
As a businesswoman and a strong social advocate for transformative initiatives, she has a great deal of governance and volunteer experience with Indigenous and Inuit organizations, including, but not limited to, Secretary-Treasurer for the Inuit Non-Profit Housing Corporation; President of the Tungasuvvingat Inuit Community Centre; and a founding member of the Ottawa Inuit Headstart and the Wabano Aboriginal Health Centre. She was the Executive Director of the Qikiqtani Truth Commission, a commission that reviewed the “effects of federal government policies on Eastern Arctic Inuit” between the 1950s and 1980s.
Her advocacy, professional, and governance work have shown dedication and passion towards developing and delivering programs assisting Indigenous, Inuit, northerners and Canadians that reflect their values, needs, and priorities.
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