Michelle Tsutsumi (she/her) is a woman of Norwegian, Swedish, English, French, and Japanese ancestry. She currently lives rurally in Secwepemculecw, close to what is dominantly known as the Village of Chase. Growing up as a ‘City Kid,’ Michelle’s past work life was focused on body-centred trauma counselling. After burning out, then living, working, and regenerating in Tokyo (sounds counterintuitive, doesn’t it?), Michelle returned to Syilx territory where her father grew up. This is where she fell in love with organic farming and got more deeply involved in community organizing and care. She is passionately curious about the intersection of co-ops and organizational culture, shared leadership, and facilitating processes that support principled practice in service to anti-racist and anti-colonial ways of being.