Dionne Pohler

Dr. Dionne Pohler is an Associate Professor at the University of Saskatchewan Edwards School of Business and the Co-operative Retailing System Chair in Co-operative Governance at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy and the Canadian Centre for the Study of Co-operatives. Dionne was involved in community-engaged research that led to the creation of Co-operatives First, a business development and community-building organization that works with rural and Indigenous communities to address their needs through the co-operative model. Her work in this area was recently published in a research volume she co-edited titled Building Inclusive Communities in Rural Canada (2023: University of Alberta Press).