b'INDSPIRE Q&AAlso, if you have a skill, try sharingculture. Ive noticed theres a lotcultural erasure and the wounding it on social media. Yes, socialmore freedom of expression inof peoples sense of identity. So, media has a lot of negative effectsour younger generations and justfor educators, we need to nurture on peoples mental health, but ithaving these safe spaces whereand foster spaces for healthy is also a platform for sharing andthey can experiment with forms ofexpressions of identity and do the telling stories. Social media is onlytheir identity and expression is bothcomplete opposite of what was a tool; its all about how you use it.important and necessary. A lot ofdone in the past, which is provide So use it constructively as opposedthe trauma and hurt that resultedwelcoming spaces and emotionally to destructively.from residential schools were fromsafe learning environments. What do you love most about doing what you do?I love it when my writing or music connects to someone and moves them. And I love when my photos move someone because theyre connected to the landscape my photo tries to capture the beautyUn choix of. So in everything I dothe writing, the photography, the musicpour seit all comes back to connectivity, hoping to reach another human being. Thats the most meaningful.Looking ahead to the future:retrouver.what are you most hopeful and excited about? If its the future in general, I would say that Im hopeful about what the next generation can do. When Im working with and learning from the youth, speaking to or listening to them, I notice a theme of coura-geous honesty and their capacity to argue and push back againstLe Centre Louis-Riel o\x11 re aux tudiantes et tudiants things they dont agree with. I thinkautochtones un espace o ils peuvent pro\x07 ter dune theyre going to be catalysts forlarge gamme de services de soutien. Un an est a lot of change. In my life, I lookdisponible pour conseiller et guider les tudiantes et forward to meeting other change- tudiants dans un environnement propicela russite makers from across the countryscolaire. Le Centre organise et fait la promotion and having the chance to heardactivits, de clbrations, de prsentations, dateliers their stories as we learn about theet dvnements culturels, o\x11 erts en personne etoverlaps between our experiences. distance,la communaut Boral en entier. If you could tell educators one thing about making schools a safer, more welcoming, and more nurturing place for their Indigenous students, what would it be?I would say keep the spaces inclusive. Dont just highlight one 2022indspiration19'