Madelaine McCracken

BEd from Mount Royal University - 2019
MEd from University of Ottawa - 2021
PhD from University of Ottawa - In progress

Madelaine McCracken (She/Her) is Red River Métis with Manitoba Métis Federation citizenship. She currently lives on the unsurrendered and unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg Nation, where she is a PhD candidate in the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education. Madelaine is passionate about researching Truth Before Reconciliation and podcasting education, and about how First Nations, Métis, and Inuit rights, perspectives, and stories can be respectfully and truthfully shared through teacher education and curriculum expectations across Canada. Madelaine also hosts a podcast based on her doctoral research, the Conversational Métis Sash Podcast. She is also Indspire’s Métis Youth Award Laureate for 2025.