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Susan DeLisle works with communities, organizations, and
governments to facilitate community development, community-based property rights,
participation in decision-making processes, the advancement of gender-based
development,and the self-determination of locally based peoples.
Her expertise includes capacity and instututional development, co-operative planning to identify and meet community needs and priorities, administrative and logistical services for ongoing and emergent programs,communications strategies, outreach and networking strategies, the implementation of public participation processes and workshop organization, webdesign and development, photography, and digital imaging, basic research services, and basic training in organizational development.
Ms. DeLisle is the in situ technical support specialist within our organization. She manages the website
and carries out various technical support initiatives. In addition, a significant portion of Susan's professional
practice involves providing home office technical and logistical support for overseas assignments as well as ongoing
office management. In addition, she has undertaken research on community involvement in protected areas management,
alternative livelihoods and poverty alleviation, and sustainable development. She has completed a introductory course in microcredit and microfinance (with Aga Khan Canada) and continues to expand her range of technical support skills.
Some of Ms. DeLisle's projects have included working with the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN) in Amman Jordon on a capacity development project, including Institutional Development, Organizational Networking, Intranet development, and Needs analysis, Program Design and the Delivery of Training Needs.
Ms. DeLisle has also worked with Wild Jordan in Amman, a Nature-based Enterprise & Alternative Livelihoods Organization on Product Development, Product Analysis, International Market Development, Organizational Networking, and the Delivery of Training Needs.
Also in Amman, Ms. DeLisle worked with The World Conservation Union's regional programme for West Asia, Central Asia and North Africa (WESCANA) where she completed the research, editting, and writing of material for a major website redevelopment.
Ms. DeLisle has worked extensively with the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation and Allies (AAFNA)
in South-eastern Ontario on several projects from research and report writing to community
development and community advocacy. She has documented oral history, undertaken preliminary
land claims research, written articles for newspapers to educate the public on issues of
relevance to the community, and participated in many cultural activities including harvesting
of Manomin (Wild Rice). Ms. DeLisle has also undertaken research to provide background on the
historical development of contemporary concerns.
She continues to provide support services to the AAFNA Family Heads Traditional Council.
One of Ms. DeLisle's most passionate projects has been the Aboriginal Studies Symposium at Queen's
University, Kingston, Ontario. Ms. DeLisle concieved of, and worked co-operatively to design and
implement the symposium along with Four Directions Aboriginal Student Services,
the Queen's Aboriginal Student Society, and a range of volunteers from the Queen's
University community. The goal of this symposium was to
facilitate inter-university dialogue between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students,
academics, and stakeholders in a culturally appropriate manner, to introduce
non-aboriginal students to alternative methodologies consistent with First Nations
cultures and communities, to provide a consultative forum where researchers can
gain insight through the experience, knowledge and contributions of other
participants. Ms. DeLisle was the Symposium Co-ordinator for the first three Annual
Symposia which is now in its 9th year.
Another project Ms. DeLisle undertook was to design and teach a third year undergraduate course at Queen's University
in association with an Aboriginal educator. The course covered a wide range of topics. However,
a primary goal was to introduce students to the philosophies of difference between Aboriginal
and non-Aboriginal cultures, and to provide some insight into the complicated nature of
contemporary conflicts.
Ms. DeLisle also worked in Labrador with the Institute for Environmental Monitoring &
Research, a multi-jurisdictional organization of governments, organizations, and
First Nations, as the Planning Coordinator for a Resource Harvest Study planning
process. Her role was to facilitating the planning process through expertise in community
consultation and outreach, including workshop planning, background research, preparation
of supporting documents, logistics, analysis of results, ongoing communication to
negotiate project parameters, and the preparation of a final report with recommendations for
future action.
Ms. DeLisle has worked for the Kingston Environmental Advisory Forum, a committee
of the Kingston City Council, to plan and implement a series of workshops, co-ordinate
presentations by local residents with environmental expertise, provide a forum
for community dialogue and information sharing, liaise between local residents,
employees of educational and other institutions, City Council, and City staff,and
facilitate community involvement in the City’s environmental planning process
through the development of a priorities and recommendations list for City
Council.
Ms. DeLisle has also worked with the Ban Righ Center for Women's Continuing Education
at Queen's University where she provided support, referals, and informal councelling, primarily
but not exclusively, to mature students - women who where facing the unique challenges of
combining thier lives (social, personal, economic and other issues) with the challenges
of returning to school. She also designed and implemented an educational program on
issues relevant to Women.
Her issue specific interests include: Community-based property
rights and jurisdiction/governance, gender & children's issues, participatory development, poverty alleviation,
economic and microenterprise development, food security, environmental
protection, and literacy and educational design rooted in cultural frameworks.
Ms. DeLisle is currently the office administrator for Fuller & Associates and the
International Mountains Consultancy. She is also working as a
technical support specialist, has skills in web design and management, and list-serve
construction and management.
Ms. DeLisle's primary academic
qualifications include:
- International Microfinance and Microenterprise Seminar, Aga Khan
Foundation – 2002
which was an intensive training course on the
fundamentals of microfinance and microenterprise development.
- Master of Arts (Geography), Queen’s University – 1998-2001
Thesis:
Coming out of the shadows: Asserting identity and authority in a layered
homeland: The 1979-82 Mud Lake wild rice confrontation.
Specialized in
social, cultural, and political geography, critical geographic theory,
methodology, Aboriginal issues.
- Bachelor of Arts, Honours (Geography), Queen’s University - 1993 – 1996
Specialized in social, cultural, and regional geography, political
geography (geopolitics), and international development.
PUBLICATIONS:
NOTE: the following are PDF documents. If you cannot view these files please use the link below to download Adobe Acrobat reader.
- DeLisle, S., "A Layered Homeland: History, Culture and Visions of
Development", in Policy Matters 13, November 2004:212-223 415 KB
- DeLisle, S., Coming out of the shadows: Asserting identity
and authority in a layered homeland: The 1979-82 Mud Lake wild rice confrontation, Queen’s University M.A. (Geography), 2001 - FULL DOCUMENT 10.8 MB
- DeLisle, S., White by Definition: status, identity and Aboriginal rights, A paper prepared for The Ardoch Algonquin First Nation & Allies, Kingston, 1998 104 KB
For more articles on the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation please see the following:
- Koschade, Bettina and Peters, Evelyn., Algonquin notions of jurisdicion:
Inserting Indigenous voices into legal spaces, Geogr. Ann.88 B(3):1–12
Koschade, B. and Peters, E.J.,2006 280 KB
- Huitema, M. E., 2001, “‘Land of Which the Savages Stood in no Particular Need’: Dispossessing the
Algonquins of South Eastern Ontario of their Lands, 1760 1930,” M.A. Thesis, Queen’s University, Kingston.
Huitema, M. E., 2001 12.3 MB
Personal Data
Sports: Karate (blue belt level), hiking & moderate climbing,
canoeing.
Hobbies/interests: Home based production: kitchen and market gardening, seed conservation,
cooking and preserving; clothing and materials production; herb-lore and traditional
health care; heritage art and expression; as well as her own artwork including Fibre Art, Mixed Media, and pottery. For examples of her work see: Phoenix Designs by Susan DeLisle
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