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If you’re in our SEE Lite program, the sections of this document that cover our Auntie in program and Service subsidies aren’t relevant to you since they’re not included in SEE Lite. But everything else does!
Feel free to reach out to Adam ([email protected]) if you have any questions!
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Janelle Desrosiers (she/they): Auntie in Residence
Janelle Desrosiers is an AuDHD Michif and French-Canadian Two-Spirit designer and entrepreneur. As an advocate for the intersections of Indigenous resurgence, neurodivergence, mental health, and motherhood, she is on a journey of decolonization and divesting from sick systems.
She is also the founder and creative director of Bloom + Brilliance: a queer, Indigenous, and intersectional feminist-led design agency. They build beautiful brands, websites and strategies for Indigenous and intersectional feminist entrepreneurs, community leaders and organizations as they change the world. She believes that one of her responsibilities is to nurture and support other entrepreneurs to be who they are, take care of themselves and each other, and thrive.
Janelle wants to leave a legacy of living life and doing business in ways that honour, embrace and care for ourselves and our communities. This is where she feels the most connected to her identity as a 2S person: as an embodiment of both the masculine and feminine divine, with a duty to care, nurture, and lead. She honours this role in herself as a creator, an artist, and a mentor in personal, professional and community relationships.