Susannah-Joy has always had a passion to make a difference. As an adolescent she and her best friend rescued horses from meat packers, she nurtured abandoned cats back to health, and currently adopts senior dogs. She and her husband have been foster parents to adolescents boys caught in the juvenile justice system. They witnessed the impact of Residential Schools, the Sixties Scoop, and  Family of Origin dysfunction first hand as generational trauma. After moving to the Middle East in 2007, Susannah-Joy became involved in social justice for those caught in modern day slavery and sex trafficking. She's had the experience of buying a human being and helping to repatriate her back to her home country. [In 2011, an East Asian woman could be purchased for about $2400 Canadian]

Since returning to Canada in 2015, Susannah-Joy has re-immersed herself in the reality of Canada's own national and shameful history of systemic racism by engaging in learning that will continue indefinitely. She has read the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2015) in its entirety, she has completed Indigenous Studies courses through the University of Alberta and she is working, as a White cisgender woman of privilege, to implement the recommendations adaptable to individual responsibility and action. In 2021 she completed the Gladue Writers' training through BC First Nations Justice Council, Gladue Services Department.

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These reports are federal law, and a right of every Indigenous individual in Canada. In BC, they are available for no cost through BC First Nations Justice Council (www.bcfnjc.com 1979 Old Okanagan Hwy #303, Westbank BC V4T 3A4 Phone: 778-940-1520 Email: gladueservices@bcfnjc.com)

As a Gladue Writer, Susannah-Joy strives to honour First Nations/Métis/Inuit individuals through telling their stories, one person at a time.

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If you can't wait or don't wish to be waitlisted through BC FNJC, or you have need of a formal report for another purpose, these are available as fee for service.

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Contact Susannah-Joy - gladuewriter@sujo.ca