Dr. Sherry Pictou is a Mi’kmaw woman from L’sɨtkuk (water cuts through high rocks) known as Bear River First Nation, Nova Scotia. She is an Associate Professor in the Faculties of Law and Management at Dalhousie University. Dr. Pictou holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Governance and is a Co-Principal Investigator in a New Frontiers Research Fund (NFRF) grant: Ărramăt: Biodiversity Conservation and the Health and Well-being of Indigenous Peoples (2022). She serves as the District Chief for the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq and is a member of the The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)Task Force on Indigenous and Local Knowledge. Dr. Pictou is also a former Chief for her community and the former Co-Chair of the World Forum of Fisher Peoples. Her research interests include decolonizing treaty relations, social and ecological justice, Indigenous women’s roles in food, lifeways, and fishery livelihoods, and gender roles in Indigenous governance.