Lynn Gehl
Lynn Gehl is an Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe from the Ottawa River Valley, Ontario, Canada. She is a writer, blogger and Indigenous human rights advocate. Gehl was involved in legal challenges aimed at eliminating the continued sex discrimination in the Indian Act. She is also an outspoken critic of the contemporary land claims and self-government process, as well as Indigenous issues in Canada. In April 2017, Gehl was successful in defeating Indian and Northern Affairs Canada’s unstated paternity policy when the Court of Appeal for Ontario ruled the sex discrimination in the policy was unreasonable. Early life  and education. Lynn was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. Her father was from Golden Lake First Nation. She studied chemical technology at college and worked on Ontario's waterways monitoring for toxic pollutants. She left and returned to school, studying anthropology at York University and later completed a masters and PhD.