Dr. Lorna Wanosts’a7 Williams is Lil̓wat7úl from Mount Currie, B.C., and an Indigenous scholar, linguist, and renowned global expert in Indigenous language revitalization, knowledge, and education. A bridge-builder and advocate, she has helped shape government and public policy, creating meaningful opportunities for Indigenous Peoples.
For over 50 years, she has worked alongside Indigenous communities in Canada and abroad to rebuild cultural systems impacted by colonization and to promote, document, and restore their languages. As Chair of the First People’s Cultural Foundation, she’s advancing a vision that Indigenous languages, arts, cultures and heritage are strong, supported, and passed on from generation to generation.
