My name is Rae Postulo. I currently live, work, and learn in Vancouver, BC, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish Nations, who have lived here for time immemorial. I have French, English, Mi’kmaq, Blackfoot, and Crow ancestors.

I grew up on Vancouver Island, in the K’omoks nation, outside of my own nations. I moved to Vancouver in 2011.  I am currently in my second year of teaching. I graduated from UBC with a Bachelor of Education focusing on diversity, equity, inclusion, and decolonization in 2023. I work in Richmond, school district 38, I teach Art and occasionally Science. I attended Emily Carr for a Bachelor of Fine Arts, which is where I really found my comfortability with being outspoken about my Indigenous heritage. I am very light skinned and had always felt like it wasn’t my place and having grown up outside of my community never felt particularly involved in any Indigenous community. I do try and incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing as much as I can but I would like to include it more.

I think for myself I want a deeper understanding of Indigenous ways of knowing in the classroom context, and how I can incorporate this more smoothly into everyday lessons. Also to find my way back to myself again, I feel like in these first two years I’ve been treading water a bit trying to catch my breath with starting a new career and want to become more involved in my own community again. I feel like I have lost a bit of the passion for incorporating Indigenous knowledge into my classroom and would love to get back to it.