SHAPING THE FUTURE OF PLAR

Adina Gray is an educator, speaker, and founder of PurpleOwl AI, a training and consulting firm that helps educators and business professionals harness the power of Generative AI. She also serves as AI Initiatives Lead at Thompson Rivers University, Bob Gaglardi School of Business and Economics, and Advisor for AI & Digital Strategy with the Central Interior Business Accelerator.

With over 15 years of experience in post-secondary education, Adina designs AI literacy programs and delivers hands-on workshops locally and internationally. She has presented and led sessions across Canada, the United States, Europe and Latin America. A 2025 Women in AI North America Awards Finalist and recipient of the 2025 AI Innovator Award at the AI Revolution in Education Show in San Diego, she is committed to making AI accessible and human centered.

Learn more about Adina, here: purpleowlai 

Sunita is the Parliamentary Secretary for International Credentials.

Before being elected to the Legislative Assembly, Sunita worked as a language instructor at SUCCESS, a non-profit organization that supports newcomers on their settlement journey. She has helped hundreds of people learn English and connect with their new communities in British Columbia. She holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Education degrees from Panjab University, as well as a Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) certificate from Vancouver Community College. 

Sunita has two children with her husband, Navdeep, who works as a longshoreman, and together they live in Vancouver. 

Learn more here: https://www.leg.bc.ca/members/43rd-Parliament/Dhir-Sunita 

Stan Daniels (T’ult) is a Secwépemc educator, author, and governance practitioner whose work centers Indigenous storywork as a legal, pedagogical, and relational framework for change. An uncle, brother, son, nephew, and friend first, he grounds his work in kinship accountability, community responsibility, and obligation to future generations. He holds a Master of Education and is the author of Tscwinúcw-k: The Stars of the Secwépemc, a book that honours grief, ancestry, and guidance through Secwépemc teachings.

Stan has worked across governance, education, and Indigenous systems transformation as an elected councillor, policy and governance advisor, project manager, and post-secondary instructor. He has supported Indigenous Nations in law-making, jurisdictional implementation, program and service design, and cultural resurgence, with a particular interest in how story carries law, memory, and responsibility across generations and into institutions.

His work is guided by a central question: If stories carry law, memory, and obligation, what responsibilities do we assume when we carry them into institutional spaces?

Stan approaches storywork like a rez dog: grounded in place, loyal to the people, wary of imposed fences, and always reading the ground before moving forward.