With a full career in restorative justice, social work and community governance under her belt, TuktoyaktukSA国际影视传媒檚 Margaret Dawn Anderson is heading to the senate to represent the Northwest Territories.
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In a news release on Thursday, Premier Bob McLeod praised the work Anderson did in her more-than 20 years at the GNWT, for which she twice won the PremierSA国际影视传媒檚 Award for Excellence.
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Tuktoyaktuk Community Corp. chair Eddie T. Dillon congratulated Anderson, who goes by Dawn, on her appointment in a Wednesday release.

SA国际影视传媒淭his is truly an Arctic success story which shows an Inuvialuit girl from humble beginnings can lead the way to be awarded such a prestigious position,SA国际影视传媒� Dillon wrote.

Born in Inuvik, Anderson grew up in Tuktoyaktuk, where her mother is from, before moving south after Grade 9.

She came back North after school to work with Beaufort Delta Legal Council as a court worker. She worked in Inuvik as a social worker, then in Tuktoyaktuk. While finishing a degree in child and youth care, she worked with the territorial Department of Justice in Yellowknife as the manager of probation services in the region.
She then became manager of projects and programs with community justice and policing, working on restorative and community justice in communities throughout the NWT. Here, she developed the Planning Action Responsibly Toward Non-violent Empowered Relationships (PARTNER) project, which is a co-ed program working with men and women whoSA国际影视传媒檝e been charged with domestic violence offences.
She then became assistant director of community corrections services before serving as director of community justice and policing.

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She then left to pursue a masterSA国际影视传媒檚 degree in Indigenous governance with the University of Victoria, for which she currently completing her defence.