Courtney Vance is a PhD student in the department of Sociology at the University of Toronto, and research assistant at the Yellowhead Institute. She is of Northern Tutchone/Tahltan/settler and a member of Selkirk First Nation, and a member of Selkirk First Nation (Pelly Crossing, Yukon). Her research interests include Indigenous urbanism, Indigenous planning, Indigenous art, settler colonial cities, and reconciliation. Courtney splits her time living in Tkaronto and the unceded and unsurrendered territories of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ First Nations (“Vancouver”) where she grew up.