Tareyn Johnson is Anishnaabe and a member of the Chippewa of Georgina Island First Nation. She has been the Director of Indigenous Affairs at the University of Ottawa since 2017 and teaches courses for uOttawa, the Banff Centre, Third Age, and other institutions. A lifelong artist, she also owns her own art company, She Came Shining, which is named after her daughter’s spirit name. She specializes in beadwork, paintings, and digital collage. Her published book of poetry, Dawaa: The Space Between, explores tensions between English and Anishnaabemowin and features her original art. Tareyn is also a YTT200 yoga instructor, a proud mother and wife, and has been working on her PhD in literature part time, currently in her qualifying exams.
