Hunter Cardinal

Personal context

Summary

Hunter Cardinal is a Canadian actor and theatre artist whose screen work includes BET and whose stage work includes Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and the play Lake of the Strangers, which he co-wrote with his sister. He co-founded Naheyawin, an Indigenous consulting and education company that helps organizations bring Indigenous principles and Treaty values into their practices. Cardinal has described wanting to use his work as an Indigenous artist to support his people, and has spoken publicly about reconciliation, allyship, and Indigenous-informed organizational change. No public record of partisan campaigning or advocacy on LGBTQ or gender causes is on record.