Mrs. Universe to speak in Winnipeg Oct. 2
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The reigning Mrs. Universe will be stopping in Winnipeg to talk politics in October.
Ashley Callingbull Burnham, 25, was the first Canadian and the first indigenous woman to win the Mrs. Universe crown in Belarus in August.
Burnham is an activist, an actress and a model from Enoch Cree Nation in Alberta.
The Canadian Federation of Students Manitoba Chapter, the University of Manitoba Aboriginal Students’ Association and the University of Winnipeg Aboriginal Students’ Council are helping organize her keynote address planned for Oct. 2.
Burnham’s talk will come at the end of a day’s worth of workshops for post-secondary students on indigenous issues, like voting participation and sovereignty, said CFS Manitoba chair, Michael Barkman.
Burnham will likely speak at the University of Winnipeg, although the location hasn’t been finalized yet, he said. The event will be free and open to the public.
Burnham has said she would use the Mrs. Universe platform to speak out about First Nations rights and missing and murdered indigenous women and girls.
She has urged indigenous people to vote in the upcoming federal election to oust sitting Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
“People don’t expect a pageant girl to go out and say really crazy things right off the bat. They probably just expected me to have a title and be pretty and that’s it: be pretty and shut up. But I’m not going to shut up,” Burnham told the National Post after winning her title.