Angela Sterritt

In Angela’s rise to become a significant storyteller and educator, she reflects on what got her here. From a homeless teen to a high-profile journalist, she recognizes the teachers who encouraged her to become a journalist, challenged herself in her educational journey, and were a place of safety and comfort in times of need. As a mother, she speaks about the elevated importance of teachers during the global pandemic, in building community, safety, and peace. Angela shares how important the role of teachers is to better support and impart knowledge about Indigenous people, cultures, and communities.

How truth-telling challenges silence, shifts narratives, and exposes the systems that depend on people staying quiet. Drawing from investigative journalism and lived experience, this keynote explores how stories can move people—and institutions—toward change.

Drawing upon years of investigative journalism and lived experience, this keynote explores the ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people—while also centering the strength, leadership, and love within Indigenous communities. Moving beyond awareness, it calls for accountability from institutions and individuals alike, while highlighting the ways people are already creating change: speaking up, restoring balance, and building safer communities. This is a talk about truth—but also about possibility, responsibility, and the collective work of shaping a different future.

At a time when we are seeing more clearly how power is abused, protected, and normalized, this keynote asks deeper questions about where these behaviours come from—and how they can change. Drawing from research and stories that inform Sterritt’s second book, Breakable, this talk centers on the men who are already doing the work: returning to responsibility, reconnecting to care, and showing up differently for their families and communities. She looks at what becomes possible when cycles are interrupted, when men are supported to heal, take accountability, and lead in ways that create safety.

Grounded in Indigenous knowledge systems and ancestral teachings, this keynote is about remembering who we are and where we come from. It centers Indigenous law, practices, and ways of being—not as something in the past, but as living guidance for how we care for one another, take responsibility, and create safety in our communities. Rather than looking outward for solutions, this talk reminds us that the answers have always been here—in our relationships, in the land, and in the teachings we carry.

A direct and honest conversation about the limits of allyship. This talk pushes audiences—especially settlers—to move from asking “what can I do?” to taking responsibility for their own learning, action, and impact.