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 Joella Hogan
-Joella Hogan lives in Mayo and is a member of the Crow Clan, and a citizen of the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun. She has a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Planning, from the University of Northern British Columbia, and a Masters of Arts in Native and Rural Development from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. She was a founder of her First Nation’s Heritage and Culture Department, and she led the department for ten years. Joella owns a business in Mayo, The Yukon Soaps Company, that produces products that are natural, ethical, authentic, and of high quality. She is an advocate for clean water, fair trade, and the power of plants.((“Joella Hogan.” Arctic Indigenous Investment Conference, 2019, 2020 website: https://yfncc.ca/aiic2019/wolfs-den-speakers/joella-hogan/))
+Joella Hogan lives in Mayo and is a member of the Crow Clan, and a citizen of the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun. She has a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Planning, from the University of Northern British Columbia, and a Masters of Arts in Native and Rural Development from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. She was a founder of her First Nation’s Heritage and Culture Department, and she led the department for ten years.((“Joella Hogan.” Arctic Indigenous Investment Conference, 2019, 2020 website: https://yfncc.ca/aiic2019/wolfs-den-speakers/joella-hogan/))
+Joella grew up in Whitehorse and moved to Mayo in 2003. She started making soap in 2011 and then purchased a business from two women running The Essential Soap Bar. She continued using the original recipes and developed her own recipes. Joella founded Yukon Soaps Company to make small-batch handmade high-quality soaps and oils in Mayo. She started the Indigenous Artisan Line to highlight artists in the community by including their art on the packaging and adding cards sharing the artists' stories. Her products are available at craft fairs and markets, in retail shops and online. She is an advocate for clean water, fair trade, and the power of plants and incorporates her community values in her business from the way the plants are harvested to the way they are sold. Joella Hogan won the National Indigenous Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2021.((Leighann Chalykoff, "Sharing Northern Tutchone culture and heritage, one bar at a time" in //Heritage Conversations: Stories of Yukoners connecting to their heritage.// Yukon Government, nd: 35-37.))