Denise Kennedy is a Saulteaux woman from Pasqua First Nation. She is a mother, wife, teacher and a PhD student in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina. She is also an Anihšināpēmowin sessional instructor at the First Nations University of Canada. Her passion is language revitalization and language research. Denise views language research as a vehicle for rejuvenating the spoken language in her community. For her MEd research, Denise designed and implemented a family-based language nest with her children and her mother. For her PhD studies, she intends to continue her focus on family-based approaches to language revitalization, specifically the practice of reclaiming language domains in the home.