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Tasha Spillett (born on December 24,1988 in Northern Manitoba) She is Nehiyaw and Trinidadian. She is also a co-author in #notyourprincess and an author of her own graphic novel "Surviving the City", which won her an Indigenous Voice Award in 2019 for "Alternative Format"

Personal life and career
She holds a "Vanier Canada Award" for her research proposal in "Supporting the Well-being of Indigenous Girls in Urban Areas Through Land-Based Education". She has worked as a high school teacher in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She states that her mother is her biggest role model. she enjoys singing and is a ceremony singer as well as a Powwow backup singer. She is know to do community led work for land and water conservation. She has maintained being sober for her entire life and recognizes this as one of her biggest achievements. She is working toward her PhD in education at the University of Saskatchewan.

Accomplishments

 * Indigenous Voices Awards (2019)
 * Vanier Canada Award (2017)
 * Represented her nation at the Gathering of Nation's Miss Indian World Pageant (2014)

Interview

 * #WOTSauthorchat

Videos

 * TEDx- Existence as Resistance