Rowan Pickard (they/them) is a settler born and raised on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Syilx Okanagan Peoples. They are in their first year of the MA program in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies under the Digital Arts and Humanities theme at UBCO, where they also completed their BA in English and Cultural Studies, worked at The Phoenix News, and was an executive for the Cultural Studies Course Union. They also had the honour of becoming an affiliate at the AMP Lab and co-authoring an edition for SpokenWeb’s Digital Anthology and receiving an Undergraduate Research Award (URA) for with Dr. Emily Christina Murphy as co-supervisor. Building off of their work and research from their URA, their MA research is focussed on narratives of and storytelling practices in the Okanagan and how they uphold and/or innately resist (settler) colonial legacies.