Cúagilákv (Jess H̓áust̓i) is a parent, writer, and community organizer from the community of Bella Bella. They bring their life experience and mixed settler and Heiltsuk ancestry to bear on work related to food security, land-based healing and education, and community-led social change. Jess is the parent of two Heiltsuk children and is privileged to raise the boys on the land and in their culture surrounded by their extended Heiltsuk family and non-human kin.