Margaret, an ordained minister of the PCC, is of Ojibway and Irish/Scottish origins. She was given her Aboriginal spirit name “Thundering Eagle Woman” by her maternal Great-uncle Dan, the last hereditary Chief of Sand Point First Nations in Northern Ontario. After eight years of instruction with her Aboriginal Elders, Margaret was presented with her own eagle staff, a sign of traditional Aboriginal spiritual leadership, by Audrey Bone and Stella Blackbird in 2008.

In her ministry, she follows both Christian and Aboriginal traditional spiritual ways. The rich teachings and spiritual ceremonies of her ancestors (European Christians and First Nations) have informed her theology and have shaped her way of being.
Margaret received a YMCA-YWCA Woman of Distinction award for her ground breaking work in the inner city of Winnipeg in 2007.

An ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, Paulette has been recognized by many organizations for her incredible leadership skills. She has received the African Canadian Achievement Award in Religion for outstanding leadership, the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award for cutting edge leadership, and the Governor General’s Award for demonstrated excellence in justice initiative and leadership.

Born and raised in rural Jamaica, Paulette immigrated to Canada in 1984 together with her husband Luther, and three children—Luther Junior, Kayode, and Zahra. Paulette values her Black heritage of ‘coming thus far by faith’, through the Middle Passage and over the long roads of slavery and emancipation. She loves writing, gardening, reading, thinking critically, cooking, and advocacy.

Presently, Paulette is pursuing a doctorate in New Testament Studies in the area of postcolonial feminist biblical hermeneutics at the Toronto School of Theology.

Stevie Cameron is an award-winning Canadian investigative journalist, best-selling author, and a Presbyterian woman.

She was recently nominated as one of the finalists for the Charles Taylor Prize, the annual celebration of Canadian literary non-fiction, for her fourth book On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver’s Missing Women.

In 1991 Cameron helped found the “Out of the Cold” program for the homeless at her church, St. Andrew’s, in downtown Toronto. She has also worked with many churches across Canada to set up similar programs. In 2004, she received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from the Vancouver School of Theology.