Learning Forward board of trustees member Denise Swee’alt Augustine has been an educator for over 25 years in British Columbia, Canada. Augustine is a First Nations woman who lives in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, on the unceded lands of the Hul’q’umi’num people. She recently completed a secondment with the British Columbia Ministry of Education and Child Care, serving as the superintendent of Indigenous education. How would you like to introduce yourself to our readers? I identify as the mom of two grown women, as a grandmother, and as an elementary teacher. When I speak to groups of educators, I’m usually introduced in sort of the standard Western way, with my title and a description of the work I’m doing. But if I’m in