Representation matters. Not just on screens and pages, but in the information and data we share. Join us at the School of Medicine in Brampton, Ontario to celebrate National Indigenous History Month by learning to edit Wikipedia. Anyone can make a difference by helping to improve coverage of Indigenous histories online. Come for community, and learn to edit Wikipedia pages if you're new!

This event is open to the TMU Community. We will begin at noon with a keynote by Connie Walker. Connie will deliver a talk titled Truth Before Reconciliation which will explore truth and agency and their relationship to the creation of narratives in our news media and sources like Wikipedia.

Connie Walker is a Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative journalist and host of the acclaimed podcasts Stolen and Missing & Murdered. Her work has exposed the crisis of violence in Indigenous communities and the devastating impacts of intergenerational trauma stemming from Indian Residential Schools.

A member of the Okanese First Nation, Walker has spent over two decades shedding light on often overlooked stories within Indigenous communities. Walker’s podcast Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s, is one of the most comprehensive investigations into a single Canadian residential school. The series won a Pulitzer Prize and a Peabody Award, becoming the first podcast to win both awards in the same year. The podcast also won an Edward R. Murrow Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, a National Magazine Award (Ellie) from the American Society of Magazine Editors, and an honourable mention from the Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma.

Walker is an Assistant Professor and the Velma Rogers Research Chair in the School of Journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University.

The keynote will followed by optional training for beginners. Collective editing will begin after the training. Drop in and out anytime.

A warm lunch will be provided. Please inform us of any dietary upon registration. While we will do our best, requests after this date may not be accommodated.

Bring your own laptop. Laptops will not be provided.

Participants will be eligible to win gift cards to Good Minds.

Finding the TMU School of Medicine 

This event is hybrid. The in-person event will take place in Room 117 and 118 at the School of Medicine. The School of Medicine is located at 150 Central Park Dr, Brampton, ON L6T 2T9. The zoom link will be emailed to you upon registration.

Access to the library: Access to TMU buildings requires a OneCard. Someone will be at the entrance to the TMU School of Medicine until 12:15 pm to assist with wayfinding. The Library is located at 150 Central Park, Brampton, Ontario. If you arrive after 12:15 or have issues with access, contact the workshop facilitators via email.

The National Indigenous History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is sponsored by Wikimedia Canada.