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Donna Cardinal is an independent consultant, researcher and educator in the fields of cultural development and community-based decision-making. As an associate of The Futures-Invention Associates International headquartered in Denver, she has facilitated envisioning projects and workshops in community, church, government, and not-for-profit settings in Canada and the US for the past fifteen years. Donna pioneered the use of the Futures-Invention envisioning practices online in the Cultural Leadership Development Project. Ms. Cardinal served on the curriculum committee for, co-authored, and now teaches a web-based course in citizen engagement and consultation for municipal administrators across Canada sponsored jointly by Dalhousie University and the University of Alberta.
Ms. Cardinal taught cultural policy in Canadian Studies at the University of Alberta from 1983 until 2001 and completed an MA in Canadian Studies/Political Science at the University of Alberta in 1999 with a thesis on envisioning as a public policy process for culture at the municipal level. She is past President of the Canadian Cultural Research Network and maintains her involvement in cultural research, publication and conference coordination. Donna has been appointed to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s sectoral commission on Culture, Communications and Information. She has been honoured with the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal (2003) and the ACE Award presented by the Association of Cultural Executives for outstanding contribution to arts and cultural management in Canada (2003). In 1992 Donna established Cardinal Concepts as a vehicle for her consulting work.
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