
Alina Avram (she/her) is an Ottawa-based public servant and speaker who brings a lived experience perspective shaped by navigating significant physical health challenges and grief. She currently works as a Social Policy Advisor with Indigenous Services Canada, contributing to national education initiatives that support First Nations post-secondary students and communities. While her professional work is rooted in public policy, her advocacy is informed by lived experience, with a focus on resilience, wellbeing, and accessibility. Alina’s work explores the connection between physical and mental health, as well as the role of environments, systems, and support structures in shaping how individuals cope and adapt. She has contributed to national conversations on lived experience and resilience, including the National Power of Peer Support Conference, and through the Federal Speakers Forum on Lived Experience. She was also recently featured on the DCO Discourse podcast with Distress and Crisis Ontario.