James Michael is a Senior Associate of Mi'kma'ki All Points Services (MAPS) with the portfolio of Manager of Advisory Services and Public Relations. James is a Mi'kmaq from the Shubenacadie First Nations in Nova Scotia. He holds a degree in Political Science from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and graduated from Dalhousie Law School and articled at a large Halifax Law Firm that practiced in many areas of the law. The Nova Scotia Barristers' Society honoured him as the First Mi'kmaq called to the Bar in the province by placing a portrait of him at the Law Courts in Halifax