Zoey Roy is an award winning Cree-Dene Michif spoken word poet, teaching artist, and creative consultant based out of Ottawa, Ontario. She is a PhD student at York University, focusing on songwriting as future-building for Indigenous nations. Zoey has received the Queen Diamond Jubilee Medal, the Women of Distinction Award in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, the Congress of Aboriginal People Youth Leadership Award, the Indspire Award, and the Indigenous Graduate Leadership Award at the University of Saskatchewan.