Alison Tedford Seaweed is a former public servant turned business consultant who has a wealth of experience in culturally sensitive policy analysis, cross-cultural communication, and education on social issues. An advocate for health and mental health, and also Indigenous issues, she has written many articles for publications like CBC, Al Jazeera and Today’s Parent. She is the author of Chronic Profit and Stay Woke, Not Broke, also from Self-Counsel Press. Alison is a member of Kwakiutl First Nation, of ‘Nakwaxda'xw ancestry, and is the granddaughter of a residential school survivor. She currently resides in Abbotsford, BC.