Tanya Talaga is an acclaimed author, journalist, and filmmaker of Anishinaabe and Polish descent, and a member of Fort William First Nation. Holding five honorary doctorates, she was a journalist at the Toronto Star for over twenty years and is now a regular columnist at The Globe and Mail. In 2021, Tanya was part of a Globe team that won the Michener Award in public service journalism for reporting on the Catholic Church’s efforts to avoid responsibility regarding Indian Residential Schools. Prior to founding Makwa Creative, an Indigenous-owned production company that produces original content, Talaga published Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City: a nationally-bestselling book about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights. Seven Fallen Feathers was published to critical acclaim, winning the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and the First Nation Communities Read Award; was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize and the BC National Award for Nonfiction; and was selected as CBC’s Nonfiction Book of the Year. Tanya was named the 2017–2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy and this series resulted in her most recent book, All Our Relations: Finding A Path Forward. In All Our Relatons, Talaga explores the alarming rise of youth suicide in Indigenous communities in Canada and beyond, chronicling the Indigenous experience in colonized nations. Tanya’s book, The Knowing, retells the history of this country as only she can—through an Indigenous lens, beginning with the life of her great-great grandmother Annie Carpenter and her family, as they experienced decades of government- and Church-sanctioned enfranchisement and genocide. The Knowing is a seminal unravelling of the centuries-long oppression of Indigenous People that continues to reverberate in these communities today.