Consulting highlights

Based in the territorial capital of Yellowknife, Stephanie has spent much of the past 30 years working for Indigenous peoples and organizations in the NWT and Canada. She specializes in political and community development, including Treaty negotiations and implementation, and the development of public governance institutions in the NWT.

Stephanie has played a key role in a range of complex, multi-party and Indigenous-driven projects. She not only challenges the status quo, she drives change and rolls up her sleeves to design and implement new organizations and systems, and to foster more productive relationships.

Fox Consulting has proven expertise in

• leading and managing teams for negotiations, with subject matter expertise including fiscal relations and financing, governance structure development, implementation;

• setting up new organizations - identifying needs and establishing collaborations between Indigenous knowledge expertise and institutional development expertise;

• managing organizational change in cross-cultural and decentralized contexts; and,

• leading multi-stakeholder multi-year collaborative research projects that are regional and national in scope.

Academic and publishing highlights

Stephanie holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Polar Studies from Cambridge University, England (2005) and remains actively engaged with the academic community in her field. She is the author of numerous peer reviewed articles and books, as well as the critically acclaimed Finding Dahshaa: Self Government, Social Suffering and Aboriginal Policy in Canada (UBC, 2009). Her book was nominated for awards by both the Canadian Political Science Association and the Canadian History Association and is standard text in Indigenous Studies programs at many Canadian universities.

Currently, Stephanie is the Principal Investigator of a $2.5M Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant focusing on Modern Treaty Implementation, which is hosted by the Tłįchǫ Government.

Stephanie has published a number of articles providing political and socio-economic analysis of current issues in Northern-focused publications.

Stephanie has also been an Adjunct Professor at Carleton University’s School of Public Policy and Administration since 2015 and an Adjunct Professor in the University of Alberta Faculty of Native Studies since 2013. She serves on the Editorial Board of Northern Public Affairs Magazine and as a Board Member of the Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies. She also serves as the federal appointee to the Gwich’in Arbitration Board.

EXPERIENCE

Fox Consulting Ltd. (Yellowknife), Owner
2001 – Present

Expertise in leading and managing teams in complex multi-party negotiations; establishing new organizations; managing complex organizational change in cross-cultural and decentralized contexts; and, leading multi-stakeholder multi-year collaborative research projects that are regional and national in scope.

PAST VOLUNTARY ACTIVITIES

• Vice-President, Aurora College Board of Governors, and Chair, Research Advisory Committee (2023-2024)

• President, Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (2021-2023)

• Member, Canadian Political Science Association Reconciliation Committee

EDUCATION

University of Cambridge, PhD
Interdisciplinary (Anthropology, Political Theory, Sociology) - Polar Studies, Department of Geography

Member of Magdalene College, Cambridge University
2000 – 2005

ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETIES

Carleton University School of Public Policy and Administration
2015 – Present
Adjunct Research Professor

University of Alberta Faculty of Native Studies
2013 – Present
Adjunct Professor

Magdalene College, Cambridge University; Scott Polar Research Institute