Ts’ah, Ts’ah, Jennifer Sherif (Tsalagi, Mongolian and mixed European ancestry), is an award-winning Indigenous educator, activist, artist and Relations Specialist, was born and raised in Syilx territory and currently resides in Kwikwetlem territory.

In high school, she identified major gaps and inequities in Indigenous education, and decided then to make it her personal and professional mission to contribute bringing significant change to these areas.

Ts’ah Ts’ah has worked in Indigenous education for many years. Within the K-12 education system, she has worked as a cultural presenter, course/curriculum developer (domestically and internationally), instructor, and liaison worker. She has experience in both the private and public post-secondary education arenas in instruction, course design, and program management. She has worked on-reserve as an administrator, and has worked with numerous non-profit organizations as a consultant, workshop facilitator and guest speaker in the area of decolonization and reconciliation. She has also worked as a grant writer and adjudicator. She is renowned for her leadership and relationship building/brokering through an Indigenous lens, with a great capacity for two-eyed seeing.

Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Arts and Science from Thompson Rivers University and a Master of Education in Indigenous Knowledges and Pedagogies from the University of British Columbia. She hopes to begin an Education doctoral program in the very near future.