Barron is a Métis cultural strategist, curator, and national arts leader advancing Indigenous contemporary arts infrastructure, intellectual property protection, and institutional transformation across Canada. Grounded in her Métis lineage — with family names Barron, Peltier, Miller, and extended kinship ties across the Red River and Prairie regions — her work is rooted in relational governance, cultural sovereignty, and intergenerational responsibility.
For more than 30 years, Barron has worked at the intersection of arts leadership, Indigenous curatorial practice, and systems change. She currently serves as Director of the Indigenous Curatorial Collective (ICCA), where she leads national strategy, governance development, and multi-year initiatives supporting Indigenous curators and artists working across visual, media, and interdisciplinary practices.
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