The City of Toronto’s Purchasing and Materials Management Division (PMMD) will provide an overview of how to do business with the City and an update on the co-development of the City’s First Nations, Inuit and Métis Procurement Policy.

More information is available at www.toronto.ca/indigenousprocurement.

Abby is a proud member of Six Nations of the Grand River, where she continues to reside with her children.  

She holds a Juris Doctor from the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University and will be called to the bar early next year. During law school, she served as President of the Indigenous Law Students’ Association and as an advisor on the Indigenous Legal Education Committee.

Her policy experience includes work with the Survivors’ Secretariat at Six Nations, where she developed the Family Information Policy to support families seeking information about loved ones connected to the Mohawk Institute Residential School. She also contributed to the University of Windsor’s Indigenous Strategic Plan, developing the Kinship and Relationship Policy, and later served as Indigenous Justice Coordinator at the Scarborough Community Legal Clinic, creating policies to support Indigenous clients navigating legal systems.

In her current role as Policy Development Officer with the City of Toronto, Abby leads the co-development of the First Nations, Inuit and Métis Procurement Policy. Her work is grounded in community guidance, listening, and ensuring Indigenous voices shape the City’s reconciliation and procurement practices.

Isaac Iserhoff-Rosen is Ojibwe Cree and an off-reserve member of Constance Lake First Nation, born and raised in Toronto. He recently graduated from Western University with a BSc (Honors Specialization in Kinesiology). Isaac has previous experience working in volunteer, laboratory, health care, and addictions recovery settings, and now works as an Indigenous Youth Research Associate with the City of Toronto, contributing to the co-development of a First Nations, Inuit and Métis Procurement Policy.

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