D.M. Lafortune

Lafortune does not take life lying down. She’s a fighter, a champion, an activist and a believer in guardian angels.

She’s also a singer/songwriter whose varied life experience – from cab driver, to actor, photographer, near politician and constitutional appellate lawyer – has provided a rich source for her powerful music.

Diem Lafortune is a true renaissance woman. Aside from her musical gifts and skills as a lawyer and negotiator, she is an accomplished actor, photographer, and facilitates Decolonizing the Heart workshops using story-telling and genno-gramming as tools for building empathy and solidarity in social justice activities. Diem describes herself as “a horizon dancer.’ She can flourish in the settler world and the indigenous world and doesn’t like the marginal person label. “I can wear many hats at the same time,” she says. Make one of those hats a bowler, in honour of one of her cultural heroes, Charlie Chaplin.

Diem can now look back objectively upon what she correctly terms “an amazing life journey. With all the pain I’ve experienced I still think I’m blessed. It has given me an insight into the human heart.”