Name: Dr. Roseann Larstone (she/her/hers)
Job Title: Corporate Director, Indigenous Cultural Safety and Anti-Racism Education
Length of Service: Five months
Worksite: Kelowna Community Health and Service Centre
Community: Vernon
Ancestral Territory: syilx
Dr. Roseann Larstone carries her work with both purpose and drive. Roseann lives in Armstrong and is based in the Kelowna Community Health and Service Centre, where she serves as Corporate Director of Indigenous Cultural Safety and Anti-Racism Education within the Indigenous Partnerships portfolio. She’s deeply grounded in her values and identity as a member of the Métis Nation, and she honours the territory of the syilx Nation, where she lives, learns and works.
For Roseann, acknowledging the land is an active reminder of the lived experiences, individual and collective responsibilities, and commitments to peoples and place that guide her.
“For me, reconciliation is grounded in respectful relationships, awareness and acceptance of the shared history of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in this country and working together toward a more just and equitable reality,” explains Roseann.
Living within the colonial experience, she understands the ways in which interlocking systems bear down on Indigenous communities and families to influence lived realities. Her roots and cultural perspectives continue to shape the way she moves through the world.
