Every time her family drove across their traditional Lubicon Cree First Nation homelands, the landscape felt drier, its vegetation less vibrant. “It still looked like a forest, but there was a lot of impact from industry, a lot of cutlines,” she says. “Or you’d see heavy-haul equipment up and down the highway.” After years of trying to find her path, she eventually found it: fighting climate change, first as a long-time campaigner for the environmental group Greenpeace, and later as the lead of a 20.8 kilowatt solar energy project in her hometown.