Bevann Fox

BEVANN FOX is a member of Pasqua First Nation, originally from Piapot First Nation.
In 2012 she received her Bachelor of Arts in Arts and Culture and in 2018 her Master in Business Administration, Leadership from the University of Regina.
In 2014 she was honored with the YWCA Women of Distinction Award—Arts, Culture and Heritage, and in 2022 she was the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Medal.
She is the founder, producer, and co-host of Access TV's The Four.
Her 2020 book, Genocidal Love, won an Indigenous Voices Award and a Saskatchewan Book Award.

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