Kathy Mallett is an esteemed leader in Winnipeg’s Aboriginal community and the community-at-large. Since 2009, she has been the co-director of the Community Education Development Association of Winnipeg (CEDA), an inner-city, non-profit organization which grew out of the community school programs of the Winnipeg School Division (WSD). For a decade prior, she was a founding member and executive director of the Original Women’s Network, a training program for Aboriginal women, and is a former co-ordinator of the Urban Native Child Welfare Coalition. Throughout her career, she has helped establish many other Aboriginal service organizations and economic development projects in Winnipeg including the Payuk Inter-Tribal Housing Co-op and the Aboriginal Ganootamage Justice Services. She is a founding member of the Ma Mawi Chi Itata Centre, a child and family resource centre, and was the first Aboriginal woman ever elected to the board of the WSD. Her numerous honours include a Manitoba Human Rights Commitment Award.
