Angela Hall is a Métis Albertan, Elementary School Teacher, Mother, Poet and Artist. She has completed graduate level courses and certificates with St. Stephens College, University of Alberta, and the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute. These include Grief and Loss, Art Therapy, Drama Therapy, Expressive Art Therapy, Psychotherapy, Trauma Recovery Certification, and Graduate Certificate in Spiritual-Informed Creative. Angela specializes in First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Education for over 27 years as a K-12 Teacher, First Nations, Métis and Inuit Facilitator, Consultant, Liaison, and First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Education Manager with Alberta Education. Angela has been nominated for Excellence in Teaching and awarded the ATA, 2009, Outstanding Aboriginal Educator Award. In 2019, she received an honorable mention for the Kemosa Scholarship (First Nations, Metis and Inuit Mothers Who Write). Most recently, Angela has developed and facilitated Trauma Informed and Indigenous Ways of Knowing Art lessons for all ages and is an artist with the Bear Claw Art Gallery in Edmonton. Presently, Angela’s art is touring Alberta with the Alberta Foundation of the Arts TREX exhibition, titled Turtle Island.