{"id":653,"date":"2021-03-10T19:29:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T00:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=653"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:52:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T17:52:56","slug":"mason-ducharme","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/people\/mason-ducharme\/","title":{"rendered":"Mason Ducharme"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p>Mason Ducharme recently advanced from Inherent Rights Fellow to National Community Research Director. In this role, he ensures community research needs are met with appropriate expertise and resources, and supports Inherent Rights Fellows, Research Assistants, and First Nation community members in documenting and sharing their stories to aid other First Nations in their transition to self-government. Mason also serves as Co-Executive Director of the Centre for First Nations Governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Proudly acknowledging his Lil\u2019wat and Samahquam Nation heritage, Mason holds a BBA from Capilano University, an MPA from the University of Victoria, and is nearing completion of his PhD in Public Administration at the same institution. His dissertation focuses on retaining Indigenous executives in Indigenous organizations, earning him the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship. Additionally, he is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School\u2019s Leading People and Investing to Build Sustainable Communities certificate program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With over five years of experience as an Indigenous executive, Mason&#8217;s roles include Research Assistant (March 2021 &#8211; September 2023), Inherent Rights Fellow (October 2023 &#8211; July 2024), and Research Advisor at the First Nations Public Service Secretariat (FNPSS) (November 2022 &#8211; July 2023). He also taught Indigenous Values in Business and HR Management at Vancouver Island University and Indigenous Governance in Canada at the University of Victoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mason\u2019s publications include:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cMaking Indigenous Self-Government Happen in Canada\u201d in Positive Public Administration (forthcoming).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThe Retention of Indigenous Executives in Indigenous Organizations\u201d in Research in HRM On Native American Persons&#8217; Work Issues (forthcoming).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cHow to Support Core Governance Needs of British Columbia First Nations\u201d for FNPSS (2023).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mason\u2019s panel and conference presentations include: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cLanguage and Lawmaking\u201d at the Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium (2024).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThe Retention of Indigenous Executives in Indigenous Organizations\u201d at the BC AFOA\u2019s Indigenous Governance &amp; HR Conference (2023).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cWhat do First Nations Government leaders need from public administrators?\u201d at the CAPPA\/ACPAP Conference (2022).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Mason","cu_people_last_name":"Ducharme","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[23],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-653","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-project-management-team"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"National Community Research Director","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/653\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}