This week Devyani Saltzman, Director of Public Programs, is in conversation with writer and journalist Tanya Talaga and Wanda Nanibush, the AGO's Curator of Indigenous Art.
Tanya Talaga is a former reporter and Indigenous Issues Columnist for the Star. She is the author of Seven Fallen Feathers, which was the winner of the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and the First Nation Communities Read Award: Young Adult/Adult; a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize and the BC National Award for Nonfiction; CBC’s Nonfiction Book of the Year, a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book, and a national bestseller. Talaga was the 2017–2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer, and author of the national bestseller All Our Relations: Finding The Path Forward. She has been nominated five times for the Michener Award in public service journalism and has been part of two teams that have won National Newspaper Awards for Project of the Year.Tanya founded and runs Makwa Creative Inc., an Indigenous production company.
