Sunshine Tenasco

Founder of Her Braids & CEO of Pow Wow Pitch 

Sunshine is Anishinabeg, from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, Québec. She is a clean water activist, an author, and an entrepreneur. Sunshine founded Her Braids to create awareness about clean drinking water in First Nations communities. Her website, www.herbraids.com, sells the beaded pendants she makes, with a portion of the profits going to the David Suzuki Blue Dot campaign supporting the right to a clean environment. Sunshine also oversees a grassroots project called Pow Wow Pitch, which provides Indigenous entrepreneurs with the training, tools, mentorship and resources to start-up. She is a mother of four and a published author, her first book was Nibi's Water Song.