Jessie Nyberg

Jessie Nyberg is a Shuswap Elder registered to the Creek Band. Her Shuswap name, Busy Ant, was given to her by her grandmother when she was just one year old because she did not like to stay still and kept very busy. Jessie is a wife, mother of two, grandmother of three and a retired registered nurse after practicing for forty-five years. She is an RN, holds a Bachelor of Science Degree and is close to completing earning an MHA. In addition to her role as the ASCs Elder, Jessie is involved with the Vernon First Nations Friendship Centre, School District 22s Targeted Funds Committee, the First Nations Health Curriculum Advisory Council of UBCO, the Okanagan Aboriginal Health Research Action Group, and the Vernon Urban Elders Group. She was instrumental in the development of a Primary Care Centre in Vernon and is co-author of Silencing of Voice, an Act of Structural Violence, which was published in the NAHO Journal of Health. Jessie also received the 2007 Aboriginal Child Care Award presented by the BC Aboriginal Childcare Society.