Jessy Dame is a very proud Two-Spirit, Métis, Certified Registered Nurse. Jessy’s family is from Treaty 1 and 2 territory, which is known today as Winnipeg and St Rose-du-lac. Jessy has worked within Neonatal/Postnatal health. He currently works casually within a queer sexual health clinic in downtown Vancouver. Jessy is the Director of Two-Spirit Health with the Community Based Research Centre. Through these roles Jessy is able to work with and for the Two-Spirit community to create resources and advocate for services. Jessy brings both his lived experience as a 2S person and over 12 years of nursing experience to the table. Jessy also finished his Masters of nursing in 2021 with a primary focus on challenging stigma and shame around sex and gender work. He works hard to flip the negative narrative and risk language forced on queer and Indigenous communities, and rather brings the focus on protections from these communities.