Jeannette Armstrong, a member of the Okanagan Syilx Nation, is a Canadian author and artist and executive director of the En'owkin Centre (the culture, language and arts education institution of the Okanagan Nation) as well as an assistant professor in Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. She is also a member of the National Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge (ATK) sub-committee of the Committee On the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC), and has received a number of honorary doctorates and awards, including EcoTrust USA's Buffett Award for Indigenous Leadership.