Charlie-Kaida King is the Recipient of the BC2 Indigenous Scholarship and the Peter Jacobs Indigenous Scholarship
Kai is a status Mi’kmaq person originally from St. John’s Newfoundland. He’s now in the second year of the MLA program at the University of Toronto, and their first Indigenous MLA student. Previously Kai earned degrees in psychology-folklore at Memorial University and a Bachelor of Technology–Landscape Architecture at Dalhousie. Kai is dedicated to integrating Indigenous Heritage and Traditional Knowledge in landscape architecture and has also stepped up as a class representative within his program. Kai finds inspiration in the Newfoundland landscape and plans to return to Atlantic Canada in practice.