Audrey Huntley, Society of United Professionals/IFPTE Local 160

Audrey Huntley (she/her) is of European settler and Indigenous ancestry. She grew up an army brat between Calgary, Alberta, and Germany. As a young adult she turned a two-month trip through Europe into 20 years in Germany, France, and Italy, where she studied, worked, and became part of anti-authoritarian social movements fighting racism, fascism and gender-based violence. She returned to Turtle Island in 1998 and has been involved in anti-colonial struggles in British Columbia and Ontario ever since.

Audrey is a licensed paralegal who works with survivors of violence at Aboriginal Legal Services (ALS). She is a filmmaker/storyteller and the co-founder of No More Silence, working with other Indigenous women, trans and Two-Spirit people supporting community members in the losses of missing and murdered women, girls trans and Two-Spirit people. Audrey was one of the leads on the committee to organize ALS staff into the Society of United Professionals/IFPTE Local 160, and sat on the bargaining team which achieved a successful first collective agreement for the ALS bargaining unit in November 2022.

One of Audrey’s short films, Not Just Another Case: When Your Loved One Has Gone Missing or Been Murdered, was created to empower Indigenous community members and provide alternatives to the mainstream institutions that fail them. More recently, Audrey and No More Silence have been involved with local abolitionist groups seeking city funds be diverted away from police to mental health supports, housing and initiatives to end poverty including the No Pride in Policing Coalition and Another Toronto is possible.