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Originally from Wendake, Isabelle Picard is an ethnologist, lecturer, columnist, speaker, consultant, trainer and author. She studied at Université Laval, where she completed a bachelor's degree in ethnology, a minor in native studies and a graduate diploma in museology. Isabelle Picard drafted Wendake's first cultural policy, then worked to implement the Wendat language revitalization project. She has worked as a lecturer at various universities, including Saint-Paul and UQAM. Isabelle Picard is also a columnist for La Presse newspaper. She is a regular contributor to various radio and TV programs (Kébek, Tout un matin, etc.), as a columnist or analyst. In May 2020, she became Société Radio-Canada's first Aboriginal Affairs Advisor, before returning to consulting in 2022.

A lover of literature, Isabelle Picard contributes to various literary projects, including the exhibition Le Legs (Kwahiatonhk!, 2020) and the collection Wapke (Stanké, 2021). In 2021, she publishes her first children's novel, Nish: Le Nord et le Sud, with Éditions les Malins. The book was a finalist for the Prix Cécile-Gagnon 2021, novel category. The second volume of her saga, Nish: Les aurores boréales, was published in 2022. Throughout her career, she has always worked to raise awareness of First Nations realities.