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Jennifer McPhail Grenz is the granddaughter of Hester Sworts (Amy Tresierra and William Sworts) and grew up at the coast. She has had a two-decade career working in restoration ecology and invasive species management for different environmental non-profits, and her own company, Greener This Side, completing contracts for government agencies. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forest Resources Management at the University of British Columbia where her research program works entirely in service to the land healing needs of Indigenous communities throughout BC. She is currently focused on Indigenous food security initiatives, reclamation of traditional stewardship practices, and is working extensively on wildfire recovery. She is also currently helping to update our Nlaka’pamux ethnobotany book.

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Jennifer.grenz@ubc.ca

Nesa7 White is Nlaka'pamux from Lytton First Nation in Lytton BC. She currently lives in Kamloops while doing her studies at TRU, but travels to her home community in Lytton frequently and maintains close ties with her community. She pursued an education in Natural Resource Technology at NVIT which led to further studies at the university level at Thompson Rivers University where she completed a bachelor’s degree in Natural Resource Science in 2010. Nesa7 is now in her final year of the Master of Science in Environmental Science program at TRU. Her thesis focuses on Indigenous Knowledge and understanding of the decline of the Kamloops Lake herd of bighorn sheep. The interdisciplinary approach applied in Nesa7’s research interplays Indigenous science and Western science, ensuring that Indigenous world views and perspectives are represented through all aspects of the research project. Nesa7 has two sons which are her driving force in life: Tylor (21) and John Bear (10). Nesa7 comes from the Machelle family, her mom is the late Beverley Machelle. She is always looking for opportunities to help her community, the land, water and living beings.