Mary Point is the Director of Indigenous Relations at Vancouver International Airport (YVR); and the Relationship Manager for the Musqueam Indian Band – YVR Airport Sustainability & Friendship Agreement. Mary helps to further develop the relationship between Musqueam and YVR, facilitating the elements of this agreement and exploring new joint business opportunities; as well as developing a global Indigenous peoples strategy.

Mary is a proud member of the Musqueam Indian Band – formerly Musqueam Facilities Manager and Community Planner. She has worked throughout British Columbia for two decades, developing strategic partnerships with a range of First Nations communities and local businesses. Mary brings extensive experience in strategic communications, partnerships and community relations to her position at YVR. 

SF Ho is an artist, writer, and facilitator. They live as an uninvited guest on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ peoples. Operating somewhere between words and whatever words can’t be, their work is informed by feminist methodologies, land-based practices, and grassroots community networks. Ho has presented their artwork and writing both regionally and internationally. They’ve published a book about love and aliens called George, the Parasite.

Morning Star Trickey is a Vancouver-based vocal artist and organizer whose work moves where music, justice, and collective care meet. Shaped by her experience as a racialized woman, her practice carries forward traditions of activism, mutual aid, and deep community care. Best known for her solo performances with City Soul Choir, she draws from southern U.S. civil rights lineages and weaves folk, soul, R&B, and gospel into songs that hold love, belonging, and resistance.

Beyond the stage, Morning Star is deeply engaged in labour and disability justice work. She is President of her union local, serves as Diversity Vice-President, Persons with Disabilities for CUPE BC, and sits on the CUPE National Persons with Disabilities Committee, where she works to expand accessibility and strengthen the leadership and upliftment of disabled workers.

Audrey Siegl works with teachings & medicines passed on to her from her Musqueam family & ancestors.She has been active on grassroots, environmental and social justice-political frontline movements. Though she is rooted in West Coast & Musqueam medicines, she has worked extensively across Turtle Island with many teachings & medicines.

She is proud & honoured to carry on the work of her grandparents and ancestors. Audrey has worked on raising awareness on MMIWG, the housing crisis, the toxic supply/OD crisis, forced displacement and the connection between extractive industry and violations of FN Land & human rights. 

Miranda Dick, is a Secwépemc Matriarch who comes from a long line of warriors. Her grandfather was Wolverine, a prominent elder who led the resistance at Gustafson Lake in 1995. She was there also, as a youth with her father, Hereditary Chief Saw-Sees.Miranda, is a mother who has dedicated her life to asserting Secwepemc Rights and Title. She is also an artist and cultural worker who shares her work through the Red Hummingbird Boutique.

Bio coming soon.

Michelle Olson is a member of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation and the Artistic Director of Raven Spirit Dance. She studied dance and performance at the University of New Mexico, the Aboriginal Arts Program at the Banff Centre and was an Ensemble Member of Full Circle First Nations Performance. Michelle works in areas of dance, theatre and opera as a choreographer, performer and movement coach and her work has been seen on stages across Canada. Selected choreography/theatre credits include Gathering Light (Raven Spirit Dance), Salmon Girl (TYA – Raven Spirit Dance), Map of the Land, Map of the Stars (Gwaandak Theatre), Frost Trees Exploding Moon (Raven Spirit Dance), Mozart’s Magic Flute (Vancouver Opera), The Ecstasy of Rita Joe (Western Canada Theatre/National Arts Centre), Death of a Chief (Native Earth Performing Arts/National Arts Centre) and Evening in Paris (Raven Spirit Dance). She was the recipient of the inaugural Vancouver International Dance Festival Choreographic Award. She graduated as a Certified Movement Analyst from Laban/Bartenieff and Somatic Studies Canada and is currently teaching at Langara’s Studio 58. She recently received her MFA in Directing from the University of British Columbia.

Badger is a two-spirit ucwalmicw born and living in Xwisten, he is St’at’imc and Nlaka’pamux. Much of their life has been committed to learning, sharing and advocating for Ancestral Law. This has included protecting burial sites, gathering and sharing medicines, creating art, learning our language, front-line land protection work in both my home community and other communities.

Badger has been supporting his Mom, Christine Jack, the caretaker of Ulluilsc to re-establish our village site and protect our forests from forestry and mining over the past ten years. Ulluilsc was initiated by St’at’imc elders from Xwisten and hereditary chiefs who wanted to protect our traditional village site and reclaim the St’at’imc way of living in Ulluilsc. The reclamation of our traditional village site and development of outdoor learning space that was collectively created by several families from our community, has facilitated a positive change in the St’at’imc community.

Survivor Elders, Thelma and Arthur (Smitty) Stogan are part of the Musqueam people. Both are well-respected and knowledgeable elders within their nation. Their grand-daughter, Felecia is a singer and drummer, and often accompanies them to perform a traditional indigenous song after the territorial blessing.

The Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) people have lived in our traditional territory, what is currently called Vancouver and the surrounding areas, for thousands of years. Some of the ancient histories describe the landscape as it was over eight thousand years ago.

Raven and hummingbird tea co. began decades ago, with T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss as an ethnobotanist who wanted to share her knowledge and create special tea blends that are curated to specific health needs.

Rhteaco- Indigenous Owned Tea company, with decades of experience and teachings to understand how the plants grow together, blend together as a tea, and how they work together to heal and to build your immune system, cleanse, and support your health.

Cease Wyss and Senaqwila Wyss, Squamish Nation Ethobotanists.Cease Wyss shares immense pride to share her teachings with not only the world, but to train her next generations. She trained her daughter her whole upbringing, and the family now carry on these teachings.

Senaqwila has expanded the business with husband Justin Leo (Líl̓’wat, Shíshalh), and their children Kamaya, Lily and Hope. This intergenerational family business continues to be enjoyed after 30 years of soulful tea blends, rich in flavour and family history.

xʷməθkʷəy ̓əm Artist: Cedar Weaver and Natural Wool Dye Facilitator Rita was born and raised in Musqueam. Her late Father, Joe Becker, a former Chief, was a carver and a fisherman. Rita grew up sanding, staining and polishing her his carvings. Rita started cedar weaving once her Father passed as per her Cultural teachings to work with her hands for a year. She experienced several personal losses over the next 7 years and continued weaving on her healing journey. Her mentor, Todd Devries, A Haida Weaver, encouraged her to begin teaching cedar weaving. She now teaches full-time. Rita attended a natural dye workshop several years ago in her community and knew instantly that she had to learn this craft. She had a partner for the first couple of years but now teaches natural dyeing and basic weaving full time, mainly at educational facilities of all levels as well as at museums, local farms and community centres. My mediums focus on connecting to where we live, work and play! I weave to heal.!

Manuel Axel Strain (b. 1990) is from the lands and waters of the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Simpcw, and Syilx peoples. Strain’s mother is Tracey Strain and father is Eric Strain, Tracey’s parents are Harold Eustache (from Chuchua) and Marie Louis (from nk̓maplqs), Eric’s Parents are Helen Point (from xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm) and John Strain (Irish). Although they attended Emily Carr University of Art + Design, they prioritize Indigenous epistemologies through the embodied knowledge of their mother, father, siblings, cousins, aunties, uncles, nieces, nephews, grandparents and ancestors. They have contributed work to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Surrey Art Gallery, the UBCO FINA Gallery, were longlisted for the 2022 Sobey Award, and were a recipient of the 2022 portfolio prize.

Heather Lamoureux lives on xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ territories, where she is the Co-Artistic Director at Vines Art Society. Heather is committed to her responsibility to nurture artists, imagine and co-create creative projects, and pull people together. Her work is shaped by her training in somatic therapy, involvement in land-based community projects, gardening, supporting resistance, sovereignty, and water protection work, and many generous stories and chats. In the past, she has worked for Raven Spirit Dance, PuSh International Arts Festival, the Firehall Arts Centre, and facilitated movement classes for elders and youth. She holds a BFA from SFU in Contemporary Dance with a minor in Business and is a graduate of the Tamalpa Institute of Expressive Arts Therapy. She loves to garden, hang out by a river, and cook good food.

Sugar, spice and...Filipino. These were the ingredients chosen to create a multidisciplinary hero. But Professor Utonium accidentally added extra ingredients to the concoction...
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- 1 part live sound engineer
- 1 part live events producer
...and Chemical X.

Thus, Ky was born! Using her ultra super powers: GOOGLE SHEETS, E-MAIL THREADS and ORGANIZATION, she has dedicated her life to fighting crime against the forces of colonization and deadlines. Ky is a dish best served warm in order to serve her community situated on the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She would like to express her deep gratitude for their continued care for these territories, which sustain us and make gathering possible! When Ky is not flying around in swirling colourful loops hanging bunting and setting up speakers at events, you can find her in the mountains of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) scrambling up granite boulders and rock climbing with her friends!

Rashi Sethi (she/they) is filmmaker, photographer, cinematographer, and video artist– An image maker of many sorts. Their artistic practice spans both celluloid and digital mediums, exploring the creative potential of lens-based art. Having grown up across multiple countries all over the world, Rashi’s exposure to diverse cultures and landscapes from a young age deeply influenced her artistic vision. Her work is often dreamy and playful in nature, engaging with themes of identity, memory, and escapism.

In 2017, Rashi moved to the unceded territories of the Musquem, Squamish and Tsleil Watuth nations to pursue a Bachelor's degree from SFU in Film Production and Media Arts. She is now living out her lifelong dream of being a full time artist. Some recent award winning projects that Rashi has shot are the films Glitter Loop (2023) and Egg Yolk Custard Bun (2025).