Youth Work & Cultural Facilitation
Workshop Facilitator, ImagineNATIVE Workshop Tour - January 2026
Artistic Committee Member F-O-R-M Commissioning Fund - May to June 2025
On-site Staff, Survivor's Circle for Reproductive Justice
March 2025 (1 month)
Coordinated with Event Planners to provide a safe and culturally-responsive event for 300+ attendees. Assisted with evening performances and talent relations.
Peace Camp Youth Guide, Children’s Peace Theatre
March - August 2020 (6 months)
Children’s Peace Theatre uses the arts and artistic creativity as critical tools for personal and social transformation. The flagship program Peace Camp provides opportunities for children and youth to work with professional artists to create public presentations that speak to the issues impacting their lives, while learning skills in Conflict Transformation.
Every July, Children's Peace Theatre runs a three-week Peace Camp where 12 accomplished professional artists and 12 youth and junior guides work with 40 children aged 8-13 in a collaborative process to create an original production complete with original musical score and visual production pieces, based on explorations of relevant social issues and the children's visions of peace. Each year the work poses questions for the children to explore, and invites them to examine and question the world they live in, a world that often celebrates acts of violence, yet at the same time produces acts of heart stopping courage, kindness and humility.
In the midst of a pandemic and a global uprising for justice, Peace Camp 2020 will explored the question, What does it mean to Instigate Constellations of Resistance and Care?
Workshop Facilitator, Indigenous Youth Roots (formerly ‘Canadian Roots Exchange’ ‘CRE’)
September 2019 to April 2020
I was a volunteer with the Toronto Youth Reconciliation initiative in 2019-2020. The workshops that we designed and facilitated as part of this program opened my knowledge of the territory’s history, and ignited a passion within me to share this knowledge and continue to learn more about where I am. We taught students in the Toronto District School Board area, from high school to kindergarten, the history of the people who traditionally steward the lands we live on. This lesson of gratitude and responsibility I practice in my daily life, especially whenever I work with new clients in the film industry or with artistic collaborators. My interest in exploring the dimensions of belonging and reciprocity to place has taken me across the country and even the world, studying the oppression as well as the triumphs of Indigenous people and what we can learn from solidarity with those who face similar struggles as us on Turtle Island. But the most life-changing part of the TYRI was the way it showed me that community can be more than your blood relatives, it is a chosen family, the people who uplift you and hold you accountable. I needed that support during my first year in Toronto, from friends and mentors no matter what their age was, we found a way to listen to each other and learn from each other.
Workshop Facilitator, Put Your Colour! (Minwaashin Lodge Youth Arts Camp)
July 9th-13th 2018
Put Your Color is a project that was initiated by two friends studying at UWC Atlantic College who wanted to create a way to connect Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth in Canada.
Along with other UWC students from Canada and across the globe, the goal was to create an environment where reconciliation, companionship and dialogue is promoted through the arts.
We hope to engage youth with other youth, from all places, in reconciliation on an individual basis, community and international level. This youth-led camp was about ecouraging creativity, connections and dialogue amongst youth.
Volunteer Work
Volunteer, Gathering Our Voices Youth Conference - March 2023
Executive Member, Indigenous Committee at UBC - September 2021 to April 2022
Volunteer, Summer Solstice Powwow in Ottawa, ON - 2016
Board Experience
Aboriginal People’s Television Network (APTN) - Board of Directors