Felicia Mae Grant

Felicia Mae Grant is an L’nu (Mi’gmaq) from Winpegijuig (Pabineau First Nation). She is the Nata’ilsuteget, or the Indigenous Student Advisor, at the Mi’kmaq Wolastoqey Centre. She is also the coordinator for the Wocopscoltine weci Spiqiyahtuqweq/Weli’kwejik Elaqsultiek/Growing from the Roots, Soaring Together program.

Felicia provides guidance and support for all the Indigenous students on campus. She offers academic advising and is a safe person to go to when you need resources, encouragement, or direction. She can be found in the Mawita’mk lounge, usually with baked goods ready and music playing.

Felicia is from a strong family of storytellers. She grew up surrounded by birch trees, mayflowers, and stories from ‘Nnu’egati from her mother Phyllis Grant, the director and animator, and her grandfather, the late Elder and storyteller Gilbert Sewell.

Felicia has an undergraduate degree in History from Mount Allison University. She is a writer and artist who prefers to write historical fiction and is in the process of completing her first novel. Felicia is passionate about her culture and expresses it through artwork and by cultivating medicines. She lives in Fredericton with her small family, composed of her husband, Jeremy James, and their infamous black cat, Sable.