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Yvonne Poitras Pratt (Métis) is Associate Professor at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. Her family roots trace back to Red River and more recently to Fishing Lake Métis Settlement. Her 2020 book, Digital Storytelling in Indigenous Education: A Decolonizing Journey for a Metis Community, ethnographically explores the process of creating 19 digital stories with Fishing Lake community members. She has published on Métis education, reconciliatory and decolonizing pedagogy, service-learning, and the integration of arts in education. Yvonne has earned three teaching awards, CAFA Distinguished Academic Early Career Award (2018), and the Alan Blizzard Award for Collaborative Teaching (2021).

Yvonne Poitras Pratt (Métis) is Associate Professor at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. Her family roots trace back to Red River and more recently to Fishing Lake Métis Settlement. Her 2020 book, Digital Storytelling in Indigenous Education: A Decolonizing Journey for a Metis Community, ethnographically explores the... Read more »

Billie-Jo Grant is a proud citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta and an award-winning educator with over 20 years of classroom experience teaching K-9 students in both public and Catholic school classrooms. Formerly the Associate Director of Métis education with Rupertsland Institute Billie-Jo is currently the Indigenous consultant with Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools. She encourages others to be curious, hold deep and reflective conversations, and learn more in order to do better for all students. Billie-Jo aspires to have Indigenous education omnipresent in our education system where everyone is celebrated!

Billie-Jo Grant is a proud citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta and an award-winning educator with over 20 years of classroom experience teaching K-9 students in both public and Catholic school classrooms. Formerly the Associate Director of Métis education with Rupertsland Institute Billie-Jo is currently the Indigenous consultant with... Read more »