About me
Kelly Girvan grew up in treaty 8 territory in northern Alberta and is a graduate (2005) of the U of A Teacher Education North program. She has worked and learned on the traditional territory of the Cowichan Tribes Nation for the past 18 years. Her thesis work involved 2 Eyed seeing as the foundation to co-developing land based and place-based learning opportunities for elementary students. She is grateful to work alongside Hul'q'umi'num language and cultural advisors, knowledge keepers and elders in this important work.
Her roles as Indigenous Education teacher and Vice Principal of Indigenous Education, has helped develop ways to remodel learning systems that focus on local language and story connected to place. Kelly has mixed ancestry, with grandmother ties to the Menominee Nation in Wisconsin. Growing up, she and her family harvested big game and garden vegetables for the winter, gathering for family events to sing songs with guitars, fiddles and spoons. Kelly is also a singer/songwriter, performing and recording artist. The land often inspires her storytelling through songwriting.
