Lenny Carpenter
Host / Producer / Composer
Lenny is an Omushkego (Swampy Cree) writer, musician, and filmmaker based in Timmins, Ontario. A member of Attawapiskat First Nation, he grew up in the James Bay community of Moosonee before relocating to Timmins during his high school years. He has worked in media as a reporter/editor/publisher with Wawatay News, a reporter intern at CBC Thunder Bay, and the Indigenous Reporters Program manager at Journalists for Human Rights. He graduated from Confederation College's Film Production program in 2011. He was most recently a Gladue Writer and Gladue Manager with Nishnawbe Aski Legal Services.