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

I became interested in film because I wanted to see people like me as a starship captain on “Star Trek”. I wanted to create a Native hero that existed in the present and in the future to show the world that we made it. 

I am the founder and creative director of the film production company Code Breaker Films. 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 for book anthologies such as Dark Horse Comics’ Pros and Comic Cons, television shows such as CTV Comedy’s Acting Good, YouTube content for Sesame Street, and the hybrid game event The Walking Dead LAST MILE.

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.

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 will have its world premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

It is my goal to leave this world better than I found out and to make the way easier for the next Creative Native that follows me. The world is changeable but resists it. We must beat it into the shape it needs to be