MESC Board of Governors
Dr. Shauna Bruno
MESC Board of Governors Chairperson
Member at large
I reside in and am a member of the Samson Cree Nation. I am the daughter of Victor and Sophie Bruno and a proud mom of two daughters, Koralee and Jacqueline. I have completed my PhD specializing in Indigenous Peoples Education from the University of Alberta. I strongly desire to serve and advocate for our Maskwacîs children and families who deserve a quality education with a strong foundational Cree language and land based teachings.
I want to assist MESC in bringing value to Wahkotowin as a way to support and nurture student success. I believe that Cree values need to be embedded in the curriculum ensuring that what is important in the Maskwacîs community is reflective in programming. This may mean interrupting our understandings of curriculum making and contextualize curriculum alongside the lives of children and families. In our context as Cree people, Nehiyaw Pimatisiwin is reimagining curriculum making in the lives of learners as they come alongside Elders/Traditional Knowledge holders/Cultural Advisors/Teachers to learn the creation stories, philosophies embedded in our value system, language, treaties, Maskwacîs history and culture that is experientially based.
Elliott Young
MESC Board of Governors Vice Chairperson
Ermineskin Cree Nation representative.
Chief Desmond Bull
MESC Board Governor, Ex-Officio
Councillor Jason Makinaw (proxy)
MESC Board Governor, Ex-Officio
Councillor Chase McDougall (proxy)
MESC Board Governor, Ex-Officio
Allison Adams-Bull
MESC Board Governor
Louis Bull Tribe representative
I am a proud member of the Louis Bull Tribe, I reside in my community and serve as the Band Administrator for my Tribe. I was honoured to be asked by Chief Irvin Bull to be part of the MESC board, to learn and become directly involved in the education system in Maskwacîs. MESC, to me, means an opportunity to enhance the education system within Maskwacîs. To give our children educational services they deserve and an education that not only meets but exceeds provincial standards.
Education is our road to success and sustainability in our communities. Ensuring each child has the opportunity to succeed in school, so that they have that same opportunity to succeed later in life. Education gives us the ability to provide for ourselves. The more people we have in Maskwacîs that become lawyers, teachers, entrepreneurs, and such; the more we build our Nations.
MESC has brought all the Maskwacîs Nations together to work towards developing one authority for the benefit for all Maskwacîs schools. The benefits of developing one authority are improved resources and services, which in turn will increase student numbers in each school, especially our smaller schools.
Helen Bull
MESC Board Governor
Circle of Elders representative
Ilene Cardinal-Nepoose
MESC Board Governor
Samson Cree Nation representative
Carmella Cutknife
MESC Board Governor
Parent representative
Azure Johnson
MESC Board Governor
Parent representative
John Nepoose
MESC Board Governor
Circle of Elders representative
I’m from the Samson Cree Nation, born and raised and still live here. I’m a self employed contractor, mainly residential development.
Education is a treaty right and must be protected and exercised for the benefit of our children and future generations. It gives our children the ability to determine their destiny. By exercising our treaty right in education, we are investing in our most natural resource, our children.
Debra Strongman-Omeasoo
MESC Board Governor
Montana First Nation representative