Erin Corston

Erin Corston joined FNIGC in 2019. Currently, her work focuses on advancing data sovereignty, primarily through the implementation of a national First Nations Data Governance Strategy. Erin believes strongly in First Nations’ ability to harness the power of their data to create sustainable change at the local level, where it matters most.

Erin volunteers her time as a board director with the Ontario First Nations Technical Services Corporation, lending her 20-plus years of experience working with First Nations nationally in policy and program development.

Erin has a BA in Environmental Health, Public Health Education and Promotion from Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University). She is also a graduate of the Management Development Program at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business.

Born and raised in Treaty 9 Territory, Erin is a member the Chapleau Cree First Nation and an elected treaty land entitlement trustee with the community. Following more than a decade in the public service, she shifted her professional career to Indigenous issues, focusing on key determinants of health, such as housing, water, infrastructure and environment.