Robyn Giffen is of German and English ancestry and grew up on and recently returned to Treaty 7 territory in Calgary, AB. However, she spent most of her adult life in Kelowna, BC, living, studying, and working on the unceded and ancestral territory of the Sylix and Secwepemc people. Robyn has an M.A. from the University of British Columbia specializing in Linguistic Anthropology and has worked on Indigenous language revitalization projects in Ghana, Alaska, and British Columbia. Robyn is currently a PhD candidate in Education at UVIC, focusing on proficiency assessment in adult Indigenous language learning.