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Veronica Fuentes

Veronica Fuentes is a Salvadoran and Anishinaabe artist and community helper. Her family comes from Yellow Quill First Nation, but she is born and based out of Edmonton, Treaty 6 Territory. Veronica is an undergraduate student at the University of Alberta, Community Engagement Coordinator at Indigenous Climate Action, and co-host of Keep Moving, a podcast about encampments, and life in the Beaver Hills. Her organizing, art and advocacy in community is most often relating to harm reduction, urban Indigenous house-lessness, and climate justice. Her deep love for the land, kinship and solidarity within the prairies is central to her voice and role that places itself in Land Back movement(s) and beyond. In her free time, Veronica can be found playing with textiles, printmaking and scheming for a better world.
  • Policy Brief | Social Policy
A Love Letter to Community: Reflections on Harm Reduction & Being Bad
by Veronica Fuentes
  • September 9, 2025

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