Tsatassaya White, B.A., M.A., is a curator, event planner and community mobilizer of the Snuneymuxw (Nanaimo) & (Opetchesaht) Nuu-chah-nulth Nations.  She carries knowledge about the Snuneymuxw Nation and Territory and has many connections among the Coast Salish and throughout the Pacific North West.

Tsatassaya has curated the qw’uy’ulush ‘utl swy-a-lana “Dancing at Swy-a-lana, an Indigenous dance festival at the InFrinGinG Festival annually since July 2019 in Nanaimo BC, and since  in 2020 curated and co-produced the Sum̓sháthut (Sun) Festival in collaboration with Nanaimo’s Crimson Coast Dance Society. She has been the lead consultant of the Breaking Bannock program, a community reconciliation project on Gabriola Island. 

Tsatassaya is the 2021 & 2024  curator of conversations with esteemed dance leaders Margaret Grenier, Haa’yuups, Andrew Peter / Qwun Qwinuhw, and Lindsay  Katsitsakatste Delaronde which developed into a booklet, Huulthapi: Dancing Airwaves, edited by Emily Dundas Oke.

Tsatassaya White is the recipient of the 2025 Culture Award from the City of Nanaimo