For the first fifteen years of her career, she worked as a news anchor and journalist for major Canadian television and radio networks. In 2007, her path shifted profoundly when the elders of the Anicinape (Algonquin) Nation offered her a Sacred Pipe — a rare mark of respect that opened a long journey into the language, philosophy, and traditional medicine of this thousand-year-old people. A knowledge keeper and carrier of a sacred bundle, trained in the Anicinape spiritual tradition, she has since devoted her life to this path alongside Hereditary Chief Dominique (T8aminik) Rankin.

Together, for more than twenty years, they have joined their voices and visions in service of well-being, reconciliation, and the renewal of our relationship with the Earth. In 2013, they co-founded Kina8at–Together, followed by the Dominique Rankin Foundation in 2020, as well as Kisis Teachings — a publishing house and teaching platform rooted in ancestral wisdom and inner transformation. Marie-Josée is also the author of several books, including the bestseller They Called Us Savages (On nous appelait les Sauvages), which gathers Chief Rankin’s testimony on residential schools, forgiveness, and reconciliation.

Through nature-reconnection programs, trainings, conferences, and teachings offered both online and in person — in Canada, across Europe, and elsewhere — they reach thousands of people each year, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, who are seeking personal and collective transformation.

Their engagement also extends to the international stage. Marie-Josée serves on the World Council of Religions for Peace and its Global Women of Faith Network, takes part in United Nations initiatives for the prevention of violence and mass atrocities, and contributes to the Vatican’s Ethics in Action Committee — gatherings where she and Dominique bring Indigenous wisdom into conversations where it is too often absent, and help build bridges between the world’s spiritual traditions.

Her life’s work embodies a vision of reconciliation that transcends the boundaries between peoples, faiths, and cultures — a reconciliation that begins within each of us, in our relationship with ourselves, with others, and with the Earth.