Park board candidate Trish Kelly hopes to make aboriginal … – Straight.com
TRISH KELLY HOPES to become the first aboriginal person to sit on the Vancouver park board.
The Strathcona resident, who is seeking a nomination from Vision Vancouver, told the Georgia Straight that, though she didn’t face racism growing up, she felt the “legacy” of discrimination in her family.
“I think visibly I represent the other minority aspects of my identity, like being a woman,” Kelly said by phone from Burnaby. “But it’s more an opportunity for me to advocate and be an ally to First Nations and aboriginal people in Vancouver, which is something that I feel strongly about because every time I do that I’m honouring my mother and she passed away five years ago. It was very important to her when she got her Métis status card.”
