Ms. Teillet is an author, lawyer, treaty negotiator, and a women’s rights and Indigenous rights advocate. She is a frequent public speaker primarily on Aboriginal rights, justice, identity and equality issues. She has appeared at the Supreme Court of Canada twelve times in Indigenous rights cases. Ms. Teillet’s popular history, The North-West is Our Mother was one of the Globe & Mail’s top 100 books of 2019 and won the Carol Shield’s and Manitoba Day awards. She is also the author of Métis Law in Canada and has written for academic journals, the Globe & Mail and Macleans. Jean was the first recipient of the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Lincoln Alexander Award and was awarded the title “Indigenous Peoples Counsel” by the Indigenous Bar Association. The Métis Nation gave her its highest honour, the Order of the Métis Nation. The Association of Ontario Midwives made Jean an honorary lifetime member and she has three honorary doctorates. Ms. Teillet is a member of the Manitoba Metis Federation and is the great grandniece of Louis Riel.

T. Patrick Carrabré is a Métis composer living in Vancouver. Construction of identity and community engagement are long-term themes in his compositions, artistic programming, and administrative activities. His best-known works include Inuit Games, for katajjak (throat singers) and orchestra, which was a recommended work at the International Rostrum of Composers (2003), Sonata No. 1, The Penitent, for violin and piano, and From the Dark Reaches, which were nominated for JUNO awards. His album 100,000 Lakes (2020), was recognized with a second Western Canadian Music Award (Classical Composer of the Year). His composition Orpheus (1), was released on the Centredisc label in March 2023. Just completed a five-year term as director of the UBC School of Music, he has been reappointment as director of the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Pat has also been Dean of Music and Vice-President (Academic and Research) at Brandon University, composer-in-residence with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and an on-air host for CBC Music.