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Camille Georgeson-Usher is a Coast Salish/Sahtu Dene/Scottish scholar, artist, and writer from Galiano Island, British Columbia. Usher completed her MA in Art History at Concordia University. Her thesis, “more than just flesh: the arts as resistance and sexual empowerment,” focused on how the arts may be used as a tool to engage Indigenous youth in discussions of health and sexuality. She is a PhD candidate in the Cultural Studies department at Queen’s University and was awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship for her research-creation work looking at ontologies of gathering in urban centres. She was awarded the 2018 Canadian Art Writing Prize and most recently has exhibited work in Soundings: an exhibition in five parts. Usher is the Executive Director of the Indigenous Curatorial Collective, a Board Member of Artspace in Peterborough and the Toronto Biennial of Art, and part of the curatorial team for MOMENTA 2021.