Marilyn Baptiste is former chief of the Xeni Gwet’in First Nation, where she led her community in defeating one of the largest proposed copper and gold mines in BC. She spent her childhood in Xeni Gwet’in Caretaker Territory where she grew up with her parents and sisters. She often joined her father, then chief of the Nemiah Valley Indian Band (XGFNG), on his trips to survey the territory.

Nuskmata (Jacinda Mack) is a Secwepemc and Nuxalk community organizer and researcher dedicated to supporting Indigenous lifeways, governance, and sovereignty. She serves as Executive Director of the Moccasin Footprint Society, an Indigenous charity that supports Indigenous Knowledge, Rights and Way of Life.

K’aayhlt’aa Haanas Valine Brown is an organizer, communications professional, and devoted Haida citizen belonging to the K’aawas Eagle Clan. She believes in the power of people and connection to place and she is fiercely committed to building community resilience amid the climate crisis. Valine is the Manager of Member Engagement & Accountability at The Circle on Philanthropy.

Cúagilákv (Jess Housty) is a parent, writer, and community organizer from the community of Bella Bella. They bring their life experience and mixed settler and Heiltsuk ancestry to bear on work related to food security, land-based healing and education, and community-led social change. Jess is the parent of two Heiltsuk children and is privileged to raise the boys on the land and in their culture surrounded by their extended Heiltsuk family and non-human kin.

Kim Hardy is a mother, a wife, and a settler of Scottish and Northumberland ancestry who has a background in community economic and co-op development. Kim works with funders, change makers and innovators to collaborate around and activate shared solutions. Based in the unceded territories of Ləkʷəŋən speaking peoples (Victoria, BC), Kim values the importance of learning/unlearning, the power of collaboration and networks in creating spaces for innovation and acceleration of solutions towards equity and ecological resilience.