Connie is both Métis and German. She was raised as a guest on the unceded and traditional territory of the Stz’uminus Peoples and currently lives, works, and plays on the unceded lands of the Qualicum and Snaw-Na- Was First Nations. Connie is grateful for her over 25 years of experience as an educator in the K-12 system, Band-operated schools, and public post-secondary. She holds a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration and Leadership from the University of British Columbia, which focused on Indigenization and decolonization of education. The desire to bring forward an understanding of Indigenous ways of being is based on her lived experiences within a colonial system that has a history of misunderstanding Indigenous ways of knowing and being.  Her connection to the land and her community reflect her worldviews and her understandings of education, law, governance, relations, and protocols. She believes that reconciliation is a process of naturalizing Indigenous Knowledge Systems and making them evident to transform spaces, places, and hearts. In the context of post-secondary, this involves bringing Indigenous Knowledges and approaches together with Western Knowledge Systems.

Robyn is both Métis and Lithuanian. She was raised as a guest on the unceded and traditional territories Nlaka’pamux and Syilx Nations and currently lives, works, and plays on the unceded lands of the Okanagan and Syilx Nations. Robyn is grateful for over 25 years of working in public and private Indigenous post-secondary education. She has a Master’s Degree in Professional Communications from Royal Roads University with her research focusing on creating communication efficacy and success in professional relationships in the digital realm. Robyn is excited that she has been able to utilize this research, along with her extensive teaching experience, into creating success in online and blended education. Robyn carries an educational philosophy of traditional grassroots learning with a belief in two-way learning where the teacher and the learner are both a teacher and learner. Robyn believes that planting a seed of knowledge in one mind can create generational change and that planting seeds of knowledge in many minds can have a global impact. Robyn has had the honour of working under the teachings of many Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers, and in many First Nations Communities in B.C. and Alberta; this opportunity has greatly influenced her approach to education.