Youth Delegate

Aya Clappis

Aya Clappis is an Afro-Indigenous land defender, truthteller and visual artist who currently resides on the unceded homelands of the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations. Aya’s ancestral lineages are of the Somali and Nuu-chah-nulth peoples (Huu-ay-aht First Nations).

Their work strives to center decolonization, collective liberation and Indigenous sovereignty through graphic art, poetry, and storytelling of Afro-Indigenous resistance, survivance, and love.