Annie King is a settler researcher working as a Northern Community Engagement Specialist in the Sahtú Region of the Northwest Territories. Having grown up in Treaty 4 territory, she now lives and works on the lands of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples, also known as the Songhees and Esquimalt nations. She completed her Master of Arts in Natural Resources and Environmental Studies by researching consultation and engagement in the closure of the Norman Wells Oilfield. Since 2022, she has worked with the Sahtú Land and Water Board on relationship-based approaches to engagement and making complex governance systems more accessible through plain-language communication and storytelling.