Bertha Cormier is the Executive Director (ED) of the Temiskaming Native Women's

Support Group (operating name: Keepers of the Circle) and prior to her role as ED, she was a volunteer Board member of the Temiskaming Native Women’s Support Group for six years. Bertha is a respected Indigenous woman leader and member of Matachewan First Nation who resides in her community where she stays connected to her culture, Elders and ways of knowing and being. She also has significant experience in government, having worked with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) for two decades, first as a Resource Liaison Specialist and then as the Indigenous Relations Advisor.