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Melissa West Morrison

“Melissa has one foot in Cedar and another in Bamboo. She is ‘Namgis and Chinese. Melissa facilitates educational and research needs related to Indigenous food security while increasing knowledge of and access to traditional plants and foods. She is a community artist and UBC alumni. Her research focuses includes Indigenous land-based learning, Indigenous feminism, law and decolonial methodologies. Embracing her gift to walk multiple worlds, Melissa explores the mediums of poetry, fashion designing, and drawing to facilitate conversations around mixed-roots identities and to facilitate conversations and opportunities for both communities she is from to meet together, learn more about each other and to create spaces of solidarities to form between all cultures and communities. On a life-long journey of learning the language of plants, Melissa is driven by a community-led approach. Her work is rooted in facilitating educational experiences that centers on supporting self-determining and sustainable communities in the revitalization through a reconnection with the land.”