I am a Swampy Cree creative Native based out of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

My work focuses on Indigenous women and girls in non-traditional genres.

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I do not write about Indigenous girls of the past, I write about their present and our future.

I began my career as a filmmaker when I won the 2014 Gimli Film Festival pitch competition and premiered my winning film “Crash Site” at the same festival in 2015. I’ve won the imagineNative short film pitch competition in 2016 for my film “Eagle Girl”, which premiered at the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival. In 2017, I spoke at TedX Winnipeg with the talk titled “If I don’t see myself how do I know I exist”, which spoke about the resilience I found in the media I consumed. 

I have been a panelist at San Diego Comic Con (2018) and New York Comic Con (2019) where I spoke on the importance of Indigenous media representation in science fiction and horror. I was named a Barbie Role Model by Mattel to celebrate Barbie’s 60th’s birthday in 2019.

I am a full time freelance writer having written the graphic novels Between the Pipes and Little By Little, for television shows such as CTV Comedy’s Acting Good, YouTube content for Sesame Street, and the hybrid game event The Walking Dead LAST MILE.

For my work on Acting Good and Builder Brothers Dream Factory, I was nominated for a Writers Guild of Canada award for Comedy and Children’s content.

2024’s The Death Tour will be my feature documentary debut. Sections of the film screened at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival Docs in Progress and the completed film had its world premiere at the 2024 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

I’ve conducted numerous workshops for schools and businesses including Seven Oaks School Division, United Way, Connected North, and others. I’ve also worked as a sensitivity reader and consultant on God of War: Ragnarok and other projects.