Karine Duhamel is Anishinaabe-Métis and an off-reserve member of Red Rock First Nation. From 2018 to 2019, Karine was Director of Research for the historic National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, drafting the Final Report, directing the Legacy Archive, and managing the Forensic Document Review Project. In 2020 and 2021, she chaired the Data Sub-Working group that created the MMIWG National Action Plan Data Strategy. She is now Director, Indigenous Strategy for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.