The Circle is committed to engaging the wisdom of young leaders throughout our work and we are aware that there is a diversity of Indigenous peoples globally that self identify and define in a variety of ways. We extended an invitation to Njoki L Mbũrũ as someone that is connected to other territories and lands and is working to transform the sector in a diversity of ways. We invited her to join, listen and reflect on the conversations and abundance of stories shared at the Fall Feast to be able to share these with you all. Hopefully you enjoy these reflections as much as we did and we encourage you to share it with others that participated at the Fall Feast in October. 

Njoki is a grandchild of subsistence farmers who grow a variety of local fruits, vegetables, and trees in a beautiful village in Kenya’s Rift Valley region. She graduated from the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science in International Development (June 2020). Informed by her experiences over the past years living in Kenya, Germany, and Canada, as well as her observations of the evolving political and environmental landscape in her birthplace, Njoki feels drawn to pursue a career in public policy, with a focus on advancing Indigenous land rights, community food security, and social impact investing. She is a Black settler living on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations