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All times are Pacific Time Zone (Vancouver, BC, Canada).
About the workshop
Three Indigenous journalists will share how they have navigated newsrooms and created space for truth telling about communities that have often been undermined by the media. They will also share strategies to indigenize traditionally colonial media spaces and give their perspectives about where we are at today in terms of how far we’ve come on the road to understanding and addressing the truth about colonial violence in Canadian media.
This event is part of SFU Library's series of activities with our Non-Fiction Writer in Residence, journalist and author Angela Sterritt! Learn more about the Non-Fiction Writer in Residence events.
Speakers
Anna McKenzie. On her father’s side, Anna is a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation with Scots Métis roots from Cumberland House, Saskatchewan. Her mother is a first-generation Canadian whose parents immigrated from England and Ireland. She is IndigiNews’ Communications Aunty, Senior Aunty and Contributing Storyteller. She currently resides on the Snuneymuxw First Nation with her daughter.
Brandi Morin is an award-winning Cree/Iroquois/French multimedia journalist from Treaty 6 territory in Alberta. Among her many awards over a decade of reporting on Indigenous oppression in North America, she won two National Native American Journalism awards in 2022 for her work in Al Jazeera English. She also received a top prize in the Feature Reporting category of the Edward Murrow awards. Brandi’s debut memoir, Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising, was an instant national bestseller.
Angela Sterritt is an award-winning investigative journalist and author from the Gitanmaax community of the Gitxsan Nation on her dad’s side and from Bell Island Newfoundland on her maternal side. Sterritt has worked as a television, radio, and digital journalist for more than a decade. She is currently the host of the CBC original podcast Land Back. Her book Unbroken, a work that is part memoir and part investigation into the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women will be published on May 30, 2023, by Greystone Books.