Bios

Irene “Strong Oak” Lefebvre is the Founder, former Board President, and first Executive Director of the Visioning B.E.A.R. Circle Intertribal Coalition (VBCIC). She is a tribal member of the Ko’asek Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation of New Hampshire. Strong Oak is co-author of the “Walking in Balance with All Our Relations” teaching curriculum and gives national presentations on curricula that are designed to decolonize Indigenous Peoples and reclaim historical ways of being in the community.