Nili Kaplan-Myrth is a lecturer in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa. She is a family physician, anthropologist, Fulbright and Commonwealth scholar, and mother of three who has spent her life advocating for equitable access to health care, Indigenous self-determination in health, disability rights, 2SLGBTQ health, and mental health care. She is the author of Much Madness, Divinest Sense: Women’s Stories of Mental Health and Health Care, Women Who Care: Women’s Stories of Health Care and Caring, and Hard Yakka: Transforming Indigenous Health Policy and Politics, as well as numerous academic articles and newspaper articles.