Odette Auger, Sagamok Anishnawbek through my mother\u2013 living on Klahoose, Homalco, and Tla\u2019amin territories (Cortes Island).<\/p>\n
My background ranged over visual arts, youth programming, project management, fundraising, and comms. Working on a series of podcasts for coop radio was a shifting moment, teaching the importance of receiving stories from communities and individuals vs. having an idea and going in for a sound bite or quote. Inverting that process felt more honourable- \u201cwhat stories do communities want told?\u201d <\/p>\n
During the first two years of the pandemic, I formalized my management skills with a program in Public Administration and Governance from McGill with an Indigenous cohort. At the same time, I kept busy producing artist interviews for Red Waves, while working as a full time Local Journalism Initiative health reporter for IndigiNews. <\/p>\n
All these experiences led to a lasting love of genuine listening, and respectful story gathering. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8731,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"Odette","last_name":"Auger","title":"Managing editor and storyteller","organization":"IndigiNews","website":"","twitter":"OdetteAuger","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":""},"event":[53],"class_list":["post-8730","ona_speaker","type-ona_speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-ona22"],"yoast_head":"\n