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Biography - Wendy Stewart, Audrey Huntley and Fay Blaney

Wendy Stewart

Wendy Stewart is of mixed Shuswap, Carrier and Scottish heritage. She grew up in the Nuxalk Nation Bella-Coola and has lived in Vancouver for 12 years. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Art and Cultural Studies from Simon Fraser University and has been an advisory committee member with this project since winter 1999. She currently works as a Counselor and Volunteer trainer at the Women Against Violence Against Women Rape Crisis Center. She plans to do a Masters program in Art Therapy focusing on Aboriginal trauma survivors and forms of healing and resistance to colonizing practices.

Audrey Huntley

Audrey is of mixed Anishnawbe, German Immigrant and Euro-Canadian ancestry. She grew up in the urban context of Calgary, Alberta and moved to Europe when she was 18. 17 years later she returned to Turtle Island and has made a home for herself and Morty (one black wolf dog) in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside where she is part of the Eagles Landing Circle out of Oppenheimer Park. Audrey has worked for AWAN since November 1998 and co-authored it’s Bill C-31 report. She has a Masters in Political Sciences from the Philipps University of Marburg, Germany where she gained invaluable experiences working within the feminist autonomist and anti-imperialist movements for social change.

Fay Blaney

Fay is a Homalco woman of the Coast Salish Nation. She grew up in the traditional territories of the Homalco peoples, practiced traditional forms of life, spoke in her own language until the age of 7 and was raised by her great grandparents. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Simon Fraser University and is now completing a Master of Arts degree, also at SFU. Fay teaches in the Aboriginal Studies Program at Langara College and is a sessional instructor in the Centre for Research in Women’s Studies and Gender Relations at the University of British Columbia. She also teaches Women’s Studies and Canadian Studies at Langara College. Fay is a founding mother of the Aboriginal Women’s Action Network and is passionately committed to a decolonization that brings Aboriginal women out of the oppression and human suffering that forms current realities in Canada today. She dedicates her work to her children, Corena Marie Wilson and Andrew Paull Campbell, and all other Aboriginal children of that generation.