Sara Fontaine
Sagkeeng Youth Group
Location
Sagkeeng First Nation
Description
Sara Fontaine is an Anishinabekwe from Sagkeeng First Nation, Treaty 1, 3 and 5 Territory in Manidooba, Kanata. She has participated in Canada World Youth, a youth exchange program, where she facilitated a drop in for disadvantaged youth for three months and then worked in a village in Kenya, Africa for three months. She graduated locally in 2015 and did an education upgrade at Native Education College in Vancouver, BC where her passion for environmental protection began.
Sara is currently a representative for Sagkeeng Youth Group, a grassroots initiative within her community focused on youth empowerment and community betterment. Her goal within this group is to introduce food security along with recycling, composting, and clean energy projects that ensure sustainability within her community.
Sara has participated in Motivate Canada’s VIAYouth Summit and CANDO’s Youth Summit and Economic Development related programming. Sara also attended Indigenous Clean Energy’s ‘The Gathering’ conference. She has taken part in the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations Youth Forum and Training and the “Building your Bundle” training from the Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women. Sara is on the path to making her vision a reality for a sustainable future for Sagkeeng as she is currently part of ImGENations First Cohort which is also an Indigenous Clean Energy program, where she and her partner are completing a clean energy run greenhouse that will be implemented into the high school’s curriculum. Sara is also currently enrolled in Indigenous Environment Leadership Pathways Program. She sits on Sagkeeng’s Community Liaison Committee and currently works as an Energy Coordinator for an Indigenous Organization.