About Douglas S. White & Jennifer Kramer

Douglas S. White, known by his Coast Salish name Kwul’a’sul’tun and his Nuu-chah-nulth name Tlii’shin, is a distinguished lawyer, politician, educator, and negotiator from the Snuneymuxw First Nation in Nanaimo, British Columbia. White served as Chief of the Snuneymuxw First Nation from 2009 to 2014 and as a councillor from 2015 to 2020. In 2022, he was appointed Special Counsel to the Premier of British Columbia on Indigenous Reconciliation, providing strategic guidance on critical issues affecting Indigenous communities, including policy development and the implementation of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act in the province. He also chairs the BC First Nations Justice Council and co-chairs the Provincial Advisory Committee for Indigenous and Specialized Courts and Related Initiatives. White's extensive experience and unwavering commitment to Indigenous justice have made him a leading advocate for the recognition and implementation of Indigenous rights at both national and international levels.

Jennifer Kramer is an associate professor of anthropology and curator of the Pacific Northwest at the University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology (MOA). She earned her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University in 2003. Since 1994, Dr. Kramer has collaborated with the Nuxalk Nation of Bella Coola, British Columbia, focusing on cultural revitalization, repatriation, and Indigenous-led education.

Her research interests encompass Northwest Coast visual culture, art market economies, identity production, representation, repatriation, cultural property, Indigenous cultural tourism, Indigenous modernity, and collaborative museology. Dr. Kramer has curated several notable exhibitions, such as "Kesu’: The Art and Life of Doug Cranmer" and "Layers of Influence: Unfolding Cloth across Cultures." She co-edited Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas, which received the 2015 Canada Prize in the Humanities.