Jesse Wente

Jesse Wente is a husband and father, as well as an award-winning writer and speaker. Born and raised in Toronto, his family comes from Chicago and Genaabaajing Anishinaabek and he is an off-reserve member of the Serpent River First Nation. Jesse spent more than two decades as a columnist for CBC Radio’s Metro Morning. Jesse’s worked with the Toronto International Film Festival as a curator for a decade, including leading the film and gallery programming at the Tiff Lightbox. Jesse was the founding director of the Indigenous Screen Office and is the first Indigenous person to serve as Chair of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Jesse released his first children’s book, Danger Eagle last year, and is currently serving as Storyteller in Residence at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Jesse Wente is appearing in the following events:

Reimagining Resistance Beyond Colonies

This powerful panel brings together Indigenous writers from Canada and Australia to explore how storytelling becomes a site of resistance, refusal, and reclamation.

Sat 9 May 10:30am @ The Wheeler Centre

Sintering: An Evening of Indigenous Brilliance

From poetry, to fiction, to nonfiction, to everything outside of and in-between, this event is a celebration of the encompassing, expansive, and uncontained way we know Indigenous brilliance, globally and locally, to exist.

Sat 9 May 6:30pm @ The Wheeler Centre

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