Sherri Dutton is an urban-based mixed-ancestry Algonquin Anishinaabe kwe. She is a registered sonographer with a BSc from the University of Winnipeg, an MPH from Queen’s University, and a PhD in Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University. In her doctoral research she used a critical phenomenological approach to exploring the contextual environments and role of public health related to intentionally pregnant and parenting young women in Canada. After this Sherri became a postdoctoral fellow at University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Publich Health. 

She has worked collaboratively on a variety of community-engaged projects and have a passion for Indigenous health research, critical public health, and addressing the social and structural influences of health.