Kerry Swanson
Chief Executive Officer @Indigenous Screen Office
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WORK HISTORY
Chief Executive Officer @Indigenous Screen Office
EDUCATION
Queen's University
Bachelor of Arts, Honours, English Literature
Ryerson University and York University
Masters, Communication and Culture
London School of Journalism (UK)
Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism
SKILLS
ABOUT KERRY SWANSON
Kerry Swanson is the Chief Executive Officer of the Indigenous Screen Office (ISO), Canada\'s national independent funding organization serving First Nations, Inuit and Métis screen-based creators across Canada. Kerry has led the organization’s rapid growth and initiated multiple public and private partnerships including with Netflix, Sundance, Amazon Studios, MIT, Canada Media Fund, Telefilm, and the Government of Canada. Kerry is a co-founder of Indigenous Fashion Arts Festival, a celebrated multi-platform biennial event in Toronto, where she was instrumental in building the organization in its first five years. She has served as both Board Chair and Executive Director of the imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, the world’s largest presenter of Indigenous screen content, and has worked in leadership roles at provincial and municipal funding agencies. Kerry recently became a Board and Indigenous Advisory member for Forge Project, an exciting new space for Indigenous leadership in arts and culture, based in upstate New York. Kerry was born and raised in Chapleau, northern Ontario, in a Cree/Ojibwe, Irish and French family. She is a member of Michipicoten First Nation with familial ties to Chapleau Cree First Nation.
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