She also serves on the Indigenous Committee with Canadian Actors Equity, Racial Justice Opera Network and is an Artist Circle member for the Dream Big Collective (University of Manitoba) She is very active with universities, conservatories and professional training programs as a certified life coach, mentor and consultant to artists across North America supporting artists in bringing the diversity inherent in their whole selves to the professional world of classical music, having given workshops/talks recently at the Manhattan School of Music, Bard College, Universities of Toronto, Manitoba and Michigan. An accomplished broadcaster, documentary producer, podcast creator and host (What’s Up with Opera) she is currently the Director of Engagement and New Works at Pacific Opera Victoria on L’kwungen territory where she tends her medicine garden.

My Métis ancestry

My Métis family names are Delaronde and Croteau. I am also related to the Lizzote family through marriage. I am a citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario, with secured hunting rights on my family’s traditional territory. These rights are given only to Métis who meet the criteria as laid out in the Powley decision of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Through my late father, Fraser Hass, and his mother, Louise Marie Croteau, I learned to hunt and fish, clean my own game, to take only what I need and to share. I learned which plants were for medicine on the French River, and how to walk on the land in a way that cared for my animal and plant relatives. I was raised with teachings to honor Mother Earth, and to always walk in good relationship with her.