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Waubgeshig Rice on using the written word to bridge cultural gaps


Waubgeshig Rice talks about the moment he realized journalism could be a viable career for him as an Indigenous person. He tells the story of how a student exchange program to Germany as a teenager set him on a path toward bringing communities together through writing.

Waubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist originally from Wasauksing First Nation.

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