Jarvis was raised in We’koqma’q, Unama’kik, attended an Indian Day School from 1985 to 1993, and graduated from a Mi’kmaw Kina’matnewey school. He holds degrees from Saint Mary’s University (cum laude), Dalhousie Law School, and is a non-practicing member of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society. He has worked as a human rights legal advisor for the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq and as a senior policy analyst with the Nova Scotia Office of Aboriginal (now L’nu) Affairs. He joined APC in July 2013 and went on to hold several positions in Health. His main work involved the Aboriginal Health Human Resource Initiative (AHHRI), Health Partnership and policy support, health-related conferences, Indian Day Schools, Atlantic First Nations Health Priorities, staff supervision, and addressing racism in health care. After nine years of working in Hea ...