JESSE THISTLE is Métis-Cree, from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and an assistant professor in Humanities at York University in Toronto. FROM THE ASHES was the top-selling Canadian book in 2020, the winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Nonfiction, Indigenous Voices Award, and High Plains Book Award, and also a finalist for CBC Canada Reads. Jesse won a Governor General’s Academic Medal in 2016, and is a 2016 Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Scholar and a 2016 Vanier Scholar. A frequent keynote speaker, he lives in Hamilton, Ontario, with his wife, Lucie, and is at work on multiple projects, including his next book.
Sessions auxquelles Jesse Thistle participe
Jeudi 16 Février, 2023
All Keynote Speaker sessions will be recorded with the exception of Tom Jackson. Keynote Speaker sessions will be posted for viewing starting Monday, February 20, 2023 until March 20, 2023 11:59 pm. One of the most important lifelines to helping someone struggling with addictions and social dislocation is to allow them the space and knowledge that they hold the power of ultimate change. Of course, as Jesse will show, you also need people to help you change,...