Christy is a training and development professional, creating and delivering unique and customized employment and entrepreneurship workshops and courses, and offering career, business, and narrative life story coaching. She specializes in working with northern and remote communities, with Indigenous and new Canadian cohorts, through engaging and culturally informed virtual and in-person learning. She is the author of four award-winning children’s books, including the bestselling Fatty Legs, about her late Inuvialuk mother and best friend, Olemaun Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, who attended an Arctic residential school in the 1940s. Prior to 2020 she and Margaret travelled internationally giving more than 100 presentations and professional development trainings a year, highlighting the strength and courage of Indigenous children who survived as their own heroes. Margaret passed in April of 2020, but Christy continues to share Margaret’s story, with her blessing. Christy is a Vital Voices Lead alumna, and a member of the Yellow Thunder ceremonial family of the Kainai Blackfoot.