Budding Indigenous entrepreneurs in Cape Breton are learning skills to turn their passions into businesses – Yahoo News

March 24, 2021

MEMBERTOU — Rain Poulette has been taking photographs professionally since 2018, working out of their home in Membertou First Nation but they have always dreamed of opening a studio space to grow their business in their own community.

That dream is looking more like a reality since they started in the Cape Breton Partnership’s youth entrepreneurship program.

“Now that I’m thinking creatively and thinking more clearly, I know what I want and I know how to get it,” Poulette says.

Poulette, who identifies as non-binary and uses the ‘they/them’ pronouns, first discovered their passion for photography in Grade 5, when their teacher asked them to take photos of fellow students at a science fair in Halifax.