In 2008, this New Democratic Party Politician and Ahmed Ali Hashi Human Rights Scholarship recipient began serving the Churchill constituency in the Canadian Parliament.
Before beginning her political career, she earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Manitoba and a master's degree from Carleton University.
She taught several classes at Manitoba's University College of the North.
The child of a Greek mother and a Canadian Politician father, she spent her youth in Thompson, Manitoba, Canada. In late 2011, she married Ryan Barker.
Her struggle to keep a newly-Brazilian-owned Manitoba refinery open attracted the attention of Activist and documentary filmmaker Michael Moore.
