Shelby Blackjack
	
Shelby Blackjack is Northern Tutchone and a citizen of the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation. She has a Diploma of Fine Arts from the Victoria College of Art and a Master of Education in Leadership from Simon Fraser University.((Elections Yukon, 2923 website: Who are the candidates in the First Nation School Board by-election? | Elections Yukon)) In 2022, Shelby was awarded Yukon Government's 2021 Indigenous Employees Award of Honour for her work as the Manager of Implementation in Aboriginal Relations.((NationTalk,// 2 February 2022, 2023 website: Indigenous public servants r//ecognized by Premier Sandy Silver in annual Indigenous Employees Award of Honour (nationtalk.ca) ))