Tonya “SamQwan” Paris (she/her) is a Cree, Mi’kmaq, and Black Scotian multidisciplinary artist, author, and cultural advocate living and creating in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people. Her artistic practice centres on cultural reclamation, intergenerational healing, and the intersections of Black and Indigenous identity work that is grounded in community, informed by lived experience, and driven by a commitment to social impact.