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\\ -\il Hi i N l LHRONICL}. ' Wednesday “member J. £004 ' 25 fffb ma. w-«Jlam v. a Wad , . . . . A woman at the crossroads of acthsm and art WI” speak at Dec. 6th Memortal Lunch By CHARIUITI: PROM. PARKHILL expertise on equity and diversity. She's an C"’“ffi"“’fi"‘f7 J educator. designing online courses that pro- fifix _* * fix mote sexual health. She's the recipient of the he‘s the modern-day version of a YWCA Young Woman of Distinction Award Smooth and a megaphone. But activrst for 2009. lessica Yee seems to have a lot of She is also the founder and executive mouths and a lot of inegaphones. director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Slated to be the keynote speaker at this Network. weekend's Dec. 6th Memorial lunch hosted “We‘re the only aboriginal sexual and ' a. . by the Kitchener~Waterloo chapter of the reproductive health organization in North . . t. ' ' Canadian Federation of University Women. America for native youth." she said. ii if J, “if; she'll be speaking about indigenous youth. Yee. who is of Mohawk and Chinese _. ' ~ ‘ " violence and aCIlYlblTL l‘hese are topics she's ancestry, travels back and forth between the _ _ been immersed in her whole life. network's two head offices - in Toronto and .. .’..-¢! : :. m- i “l have a lot of- i don't want to say rage Wisconsin â€" on a weekly basis. She's cur- \\ a“): J; 7 “ A â€" but l have a big mouth. and 1 think that's rently overseeing 13 collaborative projects J .., «w . i :. J helpful to me," Yee said. “l've never thought. between Canada and the United States. .:' r; ' i; _J_ ' i , . J: ' , V“ "i “Uh. l'm too young."’ “We have two huge national projects." 5” * ' . i‘" f 353135 N ' . ..-> ‘ At age 23, Yee's‘ biography has a dizzying she said. “One looks at art-based method- 7“ . “ i “ -u “ ‘ _ depth. ologies for HIV prevention. The other one is _J v"; 3" 155 V” J , 1 "When I was 12. l was volunteering at looking at new media and normalizing 3' " _' ,., _. 3, 13h . .. ‘ shelters and l was raising havoc at my healthy sexuality." " J“. a; ' , “t we} school.” she said. Yee even talks fast. squeezing in a center _ gr” . ‘ , - _ ' \~~«\ \J_, 53 "l try to follow through on what I'm pas- sation between sessions of an international ' figs “a J ' 4 A ‘.< sionate about. if I'm ranting and raving conference on aboriginal health in Ottawa. 0 {iraaxfixfiefi 6“ _ about all these things. what am I actually Participating in panels and plenaries, she ”n" ' doing about it?" often finds herself to be far younger than the The Kitchener-Waterloo chapter of the Canadian Federation of University Women hosts a Turns out. she's doing a lot. other agency directors in the room, she December 6th Memorial Luncheon each year. The 14 women killed at Ecole Polytechnique are Yee is on the board of directors of Canadi- draws from their experience and tries to honoured With a table, complete WM? roses and their DhO‘OQ’GDhS- ans for Choice. She's a board member of share her own. ”mmm’m’“ Maggie's: Sex Workers Organizing. She's the At conference after conference. she hears names, those are the ones that have been In the future, Yee wants to be a midwife. youth coordinator for the Highway ofTears the common complaint. “i don't how to reported," she said. “There's a whole bunch But for now. she'll continue expanding the initiative. She's a speaker. sharing her reach youth!" ofunreported stuff. reach of the Native Youth Sexual Health Net~ . . J J J _‘ Yee does. She's using a broad platform ~ “For example. in some communities. work. a ’§§3;;3'§f~_~«’-57 5“? 54" she blogs. she uses social media. she writes they're rural. there's no form of public trans» “We need to get out of the mentality that Eff? Pig“; - . "W. % l for online magazines. She makes films. com- portation. if you want to get to town to do each issue is singular," she said. “if we ' _“;. I; , QW." "‘" " 4 missions music and promotes artists. groceries or whatever , . . people hitchhike. haven't come to the point where we're inter- ? I;__. J. She's a new breed of activist. reaching a it's an everyday thing. And lots of youth and secting violence prevention and sexual ;_ ’ ‘ 5 new generation ofpeople. children experience sexual exploitation health. then we have a lot of work to do. J “For example, we have aanlPV campaign because they have to, for example, trade sex Those things are obvious. but on an agency ' , . - ~ J i/ with the Assembly of First Nations. in which to catch a ride." . level, people say. ‘Well. we don't handle that.’ J "f . J u. 4 we created a video and a blog.” she said. “We The initiative spanned two years and “We need to bridge that gap. and i think ., J waif" "" ' . have three or four videos. We’ve done a hip seven communities. “We documented. we the younger generation is the generation to i‘ ' A" .. J hop song.” took photos. We didn't think we would create do it.” . ~ .r._.:fig‘r 1. After joining the Highway of Tears lnitia- a film, but we had all this footage at the W 21151“ tive, Yee even tried her hand at documentary end." Yee said. “We made a film, so we'd have ; 331517 ' . . filmmaking. _ _ something tangible that other people can Dec, 6 Memorial Lunch . Jury, ‘ ‘ Nineteen women, many of them abongi- look at. , a? / _< . ’ rial. have gone missing or been murdered on The film, called Building a Highway of “(35th by the Kitchener~Waterloo ~' "$516.13 ‘ ,? if 1 a stretch ofhighway between Prince George Hope. is currently making the festival chapter. of the Canadian Federation Of 7“ \" I" I v r g and Prince Rupert, B.C. now known as the rounds and will be released in the summer UniversnyWomen J $5121 ~ ‘ it", I -‘ Highway of Tears. Yee joined an initiative a of 2010. 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