Rhianna (she/her) is a Red River Métis woman. She serves as the Indigenous Cultural Safety and Humility Consultant with the BC College of Nurses and Midwives, where she is the first leadership level Indigenous employee within BC’s largest regulatory college. Rhianna works everyday, with urgency, to advance the commitments that have been made to eliminate Indigenous-specific racism within BCCNM and throughout the BC Health System

Rhianna is the family advocate for Keegan Combes and co-author of "Remembering Keegan: a BC First Nations Case Study Reflection" developed in partnership with First Nations Health Authority, Office of the Chief Medical Officer. Grounded in ceremony, Remembering Keegan was gifted by Keegan’s family and community to the BC health-care system as a learning tool to help shape the Cultural Safety and Humility transformation required in BC.

Remembering Keegan is the first case study reflection in the province ever shared by BC First Nations and is being used by health organizations across the country to further learning and action in Indigenous-specific anti-racism, Cultural Safety and Cultural Humility. Rhianna is committed to walking alongside the BC Health System to raise awareness and advocate for accountability, change, transparency, and health system transformation so that what happened to Keegan never happens to anyone else.

Indigenous Women Shaping Justice, Truth, and Change: A Conversation on Leadership & Legacy | Plenary | 12:45-2:15 PM Co-presenting with Sgt. Charmaine Parenteau, Angela Sterritt and Myrna McCallum