Ginger Gosnell-Myers is Nisga’a and Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw, whose 20+ year career challenging colonial systems is creating new pathways for radical change. She is the first Indigenous Fellow with the Simon Fraser University Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, where she focuses on Decolonization and Urban Indigenous Planning.
She played an integral role in making Vancouver the world’s first official City of Reconciliation, which was an outgrowth of her work on the landmark Environics Urban Aboriginal Peoples Study, the first comprehensive research of its kind in Canada.
Her work today creates new planning and design processes for development projects so that Indigenous knowledge is meaningfully reflected throughout, ensuring co-learning for all parties in centered, going beyond the normal token or decorative only approaches. Ginger’s goal is to re-define government policies and industry processes, creating new standards that meet commitments to UNDRIP and the TRC. Ginger published a chapter in Sacred Civics (2022) titled “Co-creating the Cities We Deserve through Indigenous Knowledge” and has delivered a TedX Talk – ‘Canadian Shame: A History of Residential Schools’. Ginger is currently the Chairperson of Greenpeace Canada’s Board of Directors.