Lisa Mariko Gelley is a mixed-race settler, artist, and mother of Japanese and European descent. She lives and works on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Lisa is the Artistic Co-Director of Company 605, a contemporary dance company in Vancouver that creates performance and film works, community projects, and produces and shares through collaboration. She is an instructor at Simon Fraser University’s School for Contemporary Arts. Lisa focuses on developing an intergenerational practice around speculative futures by accessing ancestral memory in dialogue with Japanese Canadian artists and makers in her community.