By Aastha Sethi, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Mahalia Yakeleya Newmark has been appointed to the National Council for Reconciliation’s inaugural board of directors. The council is a newly created, independent and Indigenous-led not-for-profit whose purpose is to advance reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada. Its first board of directors was named this week. Yakeleya Newmark is among nine people appointed. The board is tasked with overseeing the council’s work to “monitor and evaluate reconciliation efforts” and develop a multi-year national action plan, the federal government stated, while producing annual reports on the country’s progress toward reconciliation. Yakeleya Newmark is Shúhtagot’ı̨nę and Métis and works as a policy analyst in Yellowknife. She recently served as a special advisor to the Northwest Territories’ minister of housing and the status of women

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