Kamala Todd is a Métis-Cree mother, community planner, filmmaker, curator, and educator born and raised in the beautiful lands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Skwxwú7mesh-speaking people, aka Vancouver. She has a Master’s degree in urban Geography from UBC and works at the intersection of film and urban planning, towards decolonizing the city.
Kamala was the City of Vancouver’s first Indigenous Arts and Culture Planner and she is Associate Professor of Professional Practice at SFU Urban Studies. She was part of the team who created the Vancouver UNDRIP Strategy and works as an advisor with municipalities on Indigenous relations.
Kamala's media production company is Indigenous City Media and her film credits include Welcome to Our Homelands, Indigenous Plant Diva, Cedar and Bamboo, and RELAW: Living Indigenous Laws. She is the author of the Vancouver Park Board's seminal report, Truth-Telling: Indigenous perspectives on working with municipal governments. In May 2024, Kamala was selected for the Indigenous Arts: Story Sharing residency at Banff Centre. She is a research collaborator on the SAGA project, an international project looking at more-than-English languages of sustainability.