Sheila Botelho and her team celebrate and welcome the diversity and inclusion of people regardless of race, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and religion. This includes thoughts, ideas, beliefs and experiences. We are a pro-inclusion and anti-racism business dedicated to upholding and enforcing policies and practices to support it. Ultimately, we’re committed to doing our part to support liberation.Â
Indigenous Land Acknowledgment
Sheila Botelho is based in Cambridge, ON on the unceded land situated on the Haldimand Tract, land that was granted to the Haudenosaunee of the Six Nations of the Grand River, within the territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples.
We seek to publicly acknowledge the history of the land we are situated on in order to re-visibilize Indigenous peoples, whose existence and struggles have been largely absent from the Canadian consciousness for hundreds of years, and also to collectively reflect on our role in repairing our nation’s relationship with the original inhabitants of Turtle Island (Canada).
Our ability to be working and living here now—in Waterloo Region, in Ontario, in Canada—is a direct benefit of policies of expulsion and assimilation of Indigenous peoples during the time of settlement and Confederation, and since. The harms of these policies are many and are still being felt in Indigenous communities today.
We have a responsibility, as such beneficiaries, to acknowledge and understand this history and the current experiences of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples, and for this understanding to inform the work that we do, so that, first, we can stop perpetuating the damages of colonization, and, second, to begin to repair them. Land acknowledgements are just one small, first step in doing this work.
Learn more
Please visit the website of the Six Nations Tribes to learn more about their cultures and ways that you can support them.
Sheila Botelho, is committed to a lifelong practice of unraveling her own unconscious bias and participating in collective liberation. This includes, but is not limited to, working with diverse coaches, reading books written by people of diverse identities, participating in ongoing DEI training, having difficult conversations, making mistakes and repairing when possible.
