Tsatassaya White, B.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 in the Coast Salish communities.

Tsatassaya organized the Qwuyulush utl SwyaLana day of Indigenous dance at the InFrinGinG Dance Festival (July 2019) at Maffeo Sutton Park, and in 2020-23, curated and co-produced the inaugural Sum̓sháthut (Sun) Festival in collaboration with Nanaimo’s Crimson Coast Dance Society. Tsatassaya is the 2021 curator of a conversation 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.