Madelaine McCracken (She/Her) is Red River Métis and holds Manitoba Métis Federation citizenship. She is currently located on the unsurrendered and unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg Nation, where she is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education and is Indspire’s Métis Youth Award Laureate for 2025. Madelaine is passionate about researching Truth Before
Reconciliation Education and how First Nations, Métis, and Inuit rights, perspectives, and stories can be respectfully and truthfully shared through teacher education and curricula expectations across Canada. Madelaine also hosts a podcast from her doctoral research, the Conversational Métis Sash, which was led alongside brilliant Métis academic aunties, and personally hosts Research Time, which aims to make educational research more accessible, one conversation at a time.