Shauna MacKinnon is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Urban and Inner City Studies at the University of Winnipeg. She has conducted research on social and economic issues for over twenty years and is a co-investigator with the Manitoba Research Alliance, a community-university research consortium. She is the author of Decolonizing Employment: Aboriginal Inclusion in Canada¿s Labour Market and co-editor of The Social Determinants of Health in Manitoba.