In collaboration with Mi'kmaq stakeholders

In 2013, I spent 4 months living in a Mi'kmaq Nation-led camp in Rexton, New Brunswick.

It was a period of my life that would forever change my values and ethics as a settler in Mi'kma'ki (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI, and parts of Quebec and Maine).

My personal values have always been driven by a sense of justice, but living in the camp and working with both the New Brunswick Mi'kmaq and the land itself shaped my relationship to the land we live on forever.

In 2020, I collaborated with Inkstorm screenprinting collective (located at Radstorm, a radical DIY and community space in Halifax's North End) to design and screenprint hundreds of T-shirts for a fundraiser for Mi'kmaw rights-holders legal battle in establishing their fishing rights in Nova Scotia.

We collectively raised thousands of dollars, and T-shirts were purchased from coast to coast to coast, from Halifax to Vancouver and even as far north as the Yukon Territories.

Later, in 2022, I was personally connected to Pictou Landing First Nation and did some concept development with Sheila Francis, Pictou Landing's education director, on a tradable animal card game. The concept for the card game was to both be a storytelling and a Mi'kmaq language learning tool, highlighting local Indigenous animals and their magical powers.

I owe so much to the Mi'kmaq Nation, particularly the bands of Elsipogtog, Wycocomagh, Eskasoni, and Pictou Landing, where I have been sheltered in times of distress, celebrated successes, and fundamentally grown as a person.

I attribute both my sense of justice and major elements of my personal belief system to Mi'kmaw intervention. We'la'lin to this generous nation.