Sara Wolfe

Education Wolfe earned her master’s in business administration from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

Career From 1999 to 2003, Wolfe was an Outpost Nurse in Sioux Lookout and Moose Factory.

Wolfe, with her fellow Indigenous midwifery students, Cheryllee Bourgeois and Ellen Blais, started the Toronto Aboriginal Midwives Initiative in 2002, and held community meetings and consultations to determine what Native community members wanted and needed.

She worked as a midwife for the Midwives Collective Toronto from 2003 to 2005. She was Head Midwife in the Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Sunnybrook Women's College Hospital from 2005 to January 2012. From November 2012 to December 2013, she was Interim Executive Director and Midwife Project Co-Lead at the Toronto Birth Centre Inc. The Toronto Birth Centre provides pre-natal classes, labour, birth and postpartum care, complimentary breast-feeding support, massage therapy and nutritional counselling.

In collaboration with St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Wolfe and Seventh Generation Midwives took on a three-year research project called the Baby Bundle Project to address infant mortality and child removal rates that are higher in Indigenous communities compared to the general population in Canada. The goal of the research was to improve services for Indigenous families.

Wolfe co-led a four-year research project about Indigenous people in Toronto that identified undercounting by Statistics Canada.

In 2020, the Indigenous Innovation Initiative, of which Sara Wolfe is the director, was launched. The goal is to promote Indigenous economic participation and innovation.

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