Emilee Gilpin
Advisor, First Nations Forward | Victoria, B.C. |
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About Emilee Gilpin
Emilee Gilpin is a key advisor for National Observer's 'First Nations Forward' special report. Emilee produced most of the reporting on the first two years of the series from 2017-2019. With a keen focus on inspirational stories of leadership and success, she traveled through British Columbia, building relationships and documenting stories of governance, self-determination and alternative ways forward. For the past year, she served as Managing Director.
Her stunning visual, verbal and written journalism for First Nations Forward twice earned her the Canadian Association of Journalists nomination for "Emerging Indigenous Journalism."
A Michif nomad, she worked in the first 9 months of 2020 from Bahia, Brazil. She is Métis, Filipina, European (3rd & 4th gen. settler). She now resides in the traditional territories of the W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples.
Indigenous guardians turn to their laws to protect the coast
While Canadians may be more familiar with the role of a park ranger or conservation officer, guardians are first and foremost accountable to their governing structures, ones that have mostly effectively managed and preserved lands and waters for thousands of years.
How a flock of sheep protects a First Nation's land
The Saulteau First Nation wanted to stop using harsh chemical sprays to protect new tree growth. Then they got a call from a shepherd.
How Coastal First Nations took control of their economy
Coast Funds, a financing group created and overseen by First Nations in the Great Bear Rainforest and Haida Gwaii, has invested tens of millions of dollars in hundreds of sustainability projects and created over 1,000 permanent jobs in local communities, according to the group's recently released report.
Street artist MissMe speaks on abortion laws, sexuality and freezing her eggs
National Observer met up with arguably Canada's most famous female street artist, MissMe, at her home in Montréal to discuss the ongoing debate around abortion laws, how she reclaims her sexuality through her art, and why she decided to freeze her eggs.
Indigenous matriarchs stand together in dark times
A group of eight North American Indigenous elder women, weathered in front-line resistance, fluent in their languages and rich in traditional teachings, have joined forces to protect the sacred knowledge needed for future generations to face a climate in crisis.
Ten-thousand-year-old Indigenous libraries are society's best hope for environmental vitality
Have you ever been in a library that's ten thousand years old? La'goot Spencer Greening has spent years in his peoples' library, Tsimshian territory, as a student of its culture, laws and oral history, learning what environmental conservation means from an Indigenous perspective.
In the heart of Great Bear Sea, a scallop farm turns ‘science into profit’
For Coastal Shellfish Corporation, a scallop aquaculture venture located on the rainy northwest coast of British Columbia, two things matter most: sustainable business in an area too familiar with the boom and bust of fishing industries, and that their activities cause as little harm to the natural environment as possible.
Elizabeth May marries John Kidder on Earth Day 2019
Amid the joyful din of the tolling church bells, federal Green Leader Elizabeth May said she was "deliriously happy" minutes after marrying John Kidder, a fellow Green politician and more recently a hops farmer in Ashcroft, B.C., in a ceremony that took place on Earth Day, and included a mix of Indigenous and Western symbols.
Jody Wilson-Raybould lives up to the name she was given, her father says
Jody Wilson-Raybould, the former attorney general and minister of justice, is an Indigenous woman before she is a Canadian politician, her father Bill Wilson told National Observer in a phone interview on Friday.
Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation celebrates wisdom of past as they look to future
Nuu-chah-nulth leadership, Indigenous front liners, celebrated environmentalists and guests will join together to celebrate 35 years of Tla-o-qui-aht sovereignty through the Meares Island Tribal Park. The Tribal Park, first formally declared in 1984, is one of four tribal parks, governed and protected by the original caretakers of the land and waters.