Harron Hall is an emerging writer from the Syilx and Nla’kapamux Nations. Her writing and performance art combines traditional storytelling methods with modern artistic expressions. Harron has a deep commitment to protecting the land and water—she holds up her responsibility to the environment by educating people on the importance of sustainability.

Bill Cohen is from the Okanagan Nation with extensive kinship ties throughout British Columbia and Washington. He specializes in the areas of Indigenous knowledge, research, education and transforming pedagogy. For over 25 years, he has engaged in community-driven, transforming projects, as parent, volunteer, advisor, facilitator and director. He is an educator, artist, storyteller and author. The focus of Bill’s continuing research is to identify, understand and theorize the transforming potential of Indigenous and Okanagan knowledge and pedagogy through organic language and cultural knowledge revitalization.