In June, 2022, I completed my Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies at UBC Okanagan. My studies involve illuminating the ways and words of beginning teachers as they take on the responsibility and commitment to decolonize and Indigenize their classroom learning spaces. I come from a family of entrepreneurs in Saskatchewan. They are and were restaurateurs and pub owners with influence on the direction of business in their field. My brother, Tim Dlouhy, is the most recent of those business leaders, along with his wife, Penny. Tim recently fought the battle of ALS and passed away on November 6, 2022. I am an advocate for ALS Research and Community with the ALS Learning Institute of Canada.

I am married to Keith and we have two sons. Our sons are creative collaborators who compose and make music and videos. Trygg is a graphic artist/designer and businessperson. Seger is working toward a career in medical physics.

And I was born to parents who were the offspring of Settlers from Central Europe (Czechoslovakia/Hungary/England/Scotland); I have come to understand only in recent years that the land my great grandparents acquired forsmall sums of money was/is the land of was the land of the Cree/Anishinapeg/Lakota/Nakoda/Dakota/Métis Michif Peoples. I believe my learning over the past five years has enabled me to understand what it takes for the Settler to grapple with and ‘Unsettle’ (Paulette Regan, Unsettling the Settler Within, 2012) the Truth, and to know how to proceed respectfully, for the sake of Reconciliation, and for the sake of protecting biodiversity. It is all inter-connected.