Dr. Tasha Hubbard is an award-winning Cree filmmaker and an associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies/Department of English and Film at the University of Alberta. She is from Peepeekisis First Nation in Treaty Four Territory and has ties to Thunderchild First Nation in Treaty Six Territory. She is also the mother of a fifteen-year-old son. She has worked in Indigenous film since 1998 as a creator and a supporter of the Indigenous film community. Her ongoing film work and research chronicle Indigenous efforts to rematriate the buffalo, and she has supported the Buffalo Treaty since 2015. Her last feature documentary nipawistamasowin: We Will Stand Up won the Hot Docs Canadian Prize in 2019 and the Canadian Academy Screen Award in 2020.
While at OpenDocLab, she is working with Jason Ryle on WAVES OF BUFFALO, a transdisciplinary installation looking to recreate the experience of bearing witness to a Great Herd of Buffalo passing by.