Meet Corbin Jacobs - Panelist

Corbin Jacobs

Boozhoo kina-weya, I’m Corbin Jacobs. I come from Walpole Island First Nation and my clan is deer. I work at the Walpole Island Heritage Centre with the program they have, Bkejwanong Eco-Keepers as a coordinator. I love being involved with cultural events and I strive to learn more from others as we connect! Miigwech

Meet Tia Kennedy - Panelist

Tia Kennedy carries both Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe teachings from Oneida Nation of the Thames and Walpole Island First Nation. Tia worked for a grassroots organization that supported and uplifted Indigenous youth through cultural programming. From there, she pursued an education in Public Administration and Governance at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is a strong and passionate advocate for racial and climate justice.

Meet Brayden White- Panelist

Brayden Sonny White is a member of the Bear Clan of the Kaniehkeha:ka/Mohawk Nation and currently lives on the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory.In July 2015, Brayden traveled to Washington DC for the White House Tribal Youth Gathering. Later that year, he was appointed as a Native Youth Ambassador and asked back to speak on the presidential panel on issues facing Indigenous youth such as bridging the gap for Indigenous youth pursuing higher education as well as having a discussion around destigmatizing the talk around mental health. He became so inspired by the native youth among the organizations and their work, which led him to pursue a volunteer internship during the winter break of his college freshman year with the Environmental Department at the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne. 

Following his internship, he realized that the program demands were too high for him to continue his work as a Native Youth Ambassador alongside his studies. Committed to his work as Ambassador, he decided to move to Legal Studies and became very interested in learning about Federal Indigenous Policy and Environmental Law. While at university, Brayden served as a Student Government President as well as Budget Director. In addition to that, he has served as a Diversity Officer with our Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.

After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Legal Studies in 2020, Brayden currently works as the Indigenous Environmental Liaison with Catskill Mountainkeeper and as Deputy Director with the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force.

Meet Sam Whiteye - Host

Samantha Whiteye is a community leader from Eelūnapéewi Lahkéewiit. She is very passionate and dedicated to her work within Southern Ontario and the Indigenous Communities she actively serves. Samantha comes from grassroots immersed experiences which she utilizes her lived experience and understandings to create space, advocate and lead conversations centering on Truth and Reconciliation. Leading with an ethical two eyed seeing approach Samantha demonstrates leadership as a changemaker in the environmental sector.

Samantha is very knowledgeable and connected to her Lunaapeew/Lenape culture as she continuously weaves the medicine and teachings into her work and daily lifestyle. She is also passionate about ancestral seed sovereignty and hopes it helps build bridges back to identity for her people.

Over the past year Samantha has worked closely with Carolinian Canada Coalition and continues her work in a new role as Indigenous Leadership Director to help shift the narratives in conservation.

About the Event:

Youth: Feeding the Fire of the Future

Join us for the opportunity to connect and engage.

The Feeding the Fire discussion will challenge youth panelists and the audience to think about the future of stewardship, how they imagine what our mother earth will look like in the near future, and what innovative solutions we can take to tackle tomorrow’s challenges. Youth panelists will be asked to discuss and explore the current work they are involved in and how that contributes to a bigger picture and vision.

Since youth work hard to advocate for future generations, the panel will provide an opportunity to listen to them, learn from them, and address their needs. The panelists will share the support that youth movements need most from organizations and allies to sustain their movements and get more youth committed to and engaging with environmental issues.

We need to invest in youth creativity and power - they have valuable experience, ideas and knowledge that we can all learn from, including peaceful and efficient methods of activism, and finding innovative ways to advocate when faced will challenges.

There is a lot we can learn from youth movements, and a lot we can do to help them grow. Join us as we celebrate, learn from, and learn how we can support our panelists, their projects, and the movements they represent.

Registration is $50 with sliding scale. Save $70 when you purchase all Forum Series Events, or become a Carolinian Canada Member and save even more ($20 per Forum session) - Join Today.

Funds raised through ticket sales help to equitably pay our speakers, and to support Carolinian Canada's Indigenous Leadership program.

Please use the sliding scale to pay what you can if you are BIPOC and don't have the means to attend, or if you would like to pay more to assist others to attend.

Carolinian Canada acknowledges that we live on the traditional territories of many nations including the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee, the Lunaapeew, the Wendat and the Mississauga; and the rights and treaties of the many, diverse Indigenous people who live here now.

We commit to the teachings the Two Row Wampum and the One Dish One Spoon Wampum; and our duty to reconcile, learn more and create safe spaces for Indigenous and non-indigenous perspectives to meet and discuss the issues that matter to everyone.

Carolinian Canada is supported financially by the Ontario Trillium Foundation, 3M, WWF-Canada, TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, Greenbelt Foundation, City of London, London Community Foundation, Pillar Non-Profit Network, many partners and donors.

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