Doris Daley, Calgary, Alberta Doris Daley comes from a five-generation ranching family in Southern Alberta. She is an award-winning poet (named the 2004 Female Cowboy Poet of the Year by the Academy of Western Artists), and her campfire coffee and beans are widely renowned on the trails of the Albertan foothills. www.dorisdaley.com Hal Eagletail, Calgary, Alberta Hal Eagletail, a gifted storyteller, was raised on the Tsuu T'ina Reserve. Since the age of 12 he has been sharing cultural stories he learned from his grandparents, and has turned his fascination with culture into a career as a "cultural consultant." Today, he runs his own tourism company, Eagetail Enterprises, and develops interactive programs on Northern Plains culture dealing with crafts, history and culture, and contemporary issues. Linda Goyette, Edmonton, Alberta Edmonton writer Linda Goyette is a passionate collector of Alberta's stories. She is the author and editor of numerous books and anthologies, and is currently compiling The Story That Brought Me Here, a collection of immigrants' writing in their first languages, for the Edmonton Public Library. She wrote for the Edmonton Journal for twenty years as an award-winning reporter, editorial writer, and columnist, and now writes regularly for AlbertaViews magazine and other regional and national magazines. Junetta Jamerson, Edmonton, Alberta Junetta Jamerson comes from an Illinois family that immigrated to Alberta in 1910 to settle in the Wildwood area. Junetta was raised by her grandmother, Velma Carter, the foremost published historian of Alberta's Black pioneer families. She has performed as an actress, singer, and storyteller, but always with the goal of preserving her heritage. Junetta also heads the Alberta Black Pioneer Heritage Singers, a professional gospel choir. Bill Kay, Edmonton, Alberta Bill Kay, of Chinese-Ukrainian descent, was born in Edmonton. A retired businessman, Bill has been featured in Linda Goyette's Edmonton In Our Own Words and has written extensively for Edmonton: A City Called Home, an online project documenting local history. Recently, Bill has been researching the experiences of the early Chinese community in Edmonton and northern Alberta and conducting research on oral history with fellow historian Kenda Gee. Rochelle Yamagishi, Lethbridge, Alberta Rochelle Yamagishi is a third-generation Japanese Canadian whose family was moved from British Columbia to Alberta to work in the sugar beet fields of southern Alberta during World War II. A Ph.D. in Education, Rochelle works as a school counselor in Lethbridge where she conducts anti-racist programs for children. She has also compiled ten first-person stories of Japanese evacuees in southern Alberta into a book, Nikkei Journey.