Michelle Cyca

Editor, Indigenous-led Conservation

Michelle Cyca is a journalist and editor from Vancouver, and a member of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Treaty 6. Her reporting, essays and literary criticism can be found in The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, IndigiNews, Quill & Quire and The Tyee, among other publications. She is also a contributing editor to Maclean’s and a contributing writer to The Walrus. From 2013 to 2018, she was the co-publisher of SAD Mag, a biannual print publication focused on art, design and storytelling from Vancouver.

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