Shelley Wiartis a member of the North Slave Métis Alliance, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Shelley is currently finishing her fourth year of a Bachelor of Arts program in the faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Athabasca University. She is the co-founder of an Indigenous-focused holistic health program, Women Warriors. Last summer she was the recipient of the Hotıì ts’eeda (NWT SPOR Support Unit) Research CapacityDevelopment Program and the Alberta Indigenous Mentorship in Health Innovation (AIM-HI) Undergrad Summer StudentStipend for her Indigenous women’s health research project, Digital Storytelling as an Indigenous Women’s Health Advocacy Tool: Empowering Indigenous Women to FrameTheir Health Stories. She published an academic article from this research, Decolonizing Health Care: Indigenous Digital Storytelling as a Pedagogical Tool for Cultural Safety in Health Care Settings in Northern Public Affairs Magazine 2020. Shelley is an avid writer and was awarded the Sally Manning Award for Indigenous Creative Non-Fiction (2020) in Up Here magazine. She has also earned a spot as part of Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference. Shelley’s current research through AIM-HI is an extension of her digital storytelling project and explores how this Indigenous health research has shaped the participant’s health stories and the significance of including research participants in Indigenous knowledge translation.