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Indigenous Women's Leadership Program Receives Support from Celebrities Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively

Monday, 29 June 2020 13:11

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Movie stars Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively are donating $200,000 to St. Francis Xavier University's Coady Institute in Nova Scotia to help promote indigenous women's leadership.

A release says the donation by the Hollywood couple is to kick-start the Coady Institute's goal of raising $1 million for its International Centre for Women's Leadership and indigenous programming.

Reynolds is a Canadian actor who has starred in films such as “Deadpool,” and “Green Lantern,” while his spouse Blake Lively is an American film actor whose credits include “Green Lantern,” and “A Simple Favor.”

Karri-Lynn Paul, a lead of the Coady Indigenous program and one of its graduates, says an initial group of mentors and graduates from the past 10 years is beginning to examine the ways to further develop the program at the institute in Antigonish.

The institute is aiming to expand its offerings of leadership programs across the country for First Nations, Metis, and Inuit women leaders.

One goal is to offer more programs both in Indigenous communities and on campus.

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