Janie Dolan Cake is a researcher, advocate, activist, facilitator, and speaker. She was born and raised in Tiohtiá:Ke/Montreal, recognized as the territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka nation. She completed a Master's degree in Social Work and has been associated for more than 10 years with the fight against violence against women and structural violence. She did street intervention work with Indigenous women in Monterrey, Mexico. Part of her approach included integrating response-based practice, an approach based on social justice and upholding the dignity of the women victims of violence. Ms. Dolan-Cake has worked as Research Assistant to Dr. Catherine Richardson for over six years. She is coordinator of the FRIDAA project in Quebec (Femmes, Recherche, Intervention, Development, Approche, Autochtone).