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Getting The Message Out With Ashley & Buddy
Featuring Ashley Callingbull
Actress, Motivational Speaker, Miss Canada Finalist
and Buddy Currie
Champion Chicken Dancer
January 13, 2013
At an Idle No More Flash Mob
West Edmonton Mall
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Ashley Callingbull is a 23 year old Cree First Nations woman from the Enoch Cree Nation in the province of Alberta. She is currently enrolled at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in the Television Program. She is very devoted to her culture and people, and takes pride in her Native Cree heritage, and has shown this through her volunteer work with community elders and aboriginal youth. Ashley’s interest in acting led her to starring in a commercial for The Hudson Bay, and has appeared in television mini-series, acted in countless stage performances and has lent her voice for cartoons. She appears in Blackstone, a television show that airs on APTN, Showcase and on Maori Television in New Zealand. Her youth foreshadowed her young adulthood, as she continued with acting and dancing.

In June 2010, Ashley placed 2nd Runner up in the Miss Universe Canada 2010 Pageant. She is the first Cree First Nations woman to achieve this goal. During her reign as a Miss Universe Canada 2010 finalist, she traveled to hospitals and schools wearing her MUC sash, speaking about her life and reaching out to others. The loss of some very close family members have led Ashley to also support the Stollery Children’s Hospital, Walk for the Cure, Run for the Lung and mentor underprivileged aboriginal youth. Ashley is also currently the Youth Representative for the Stollery Family Centered Care Network for the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation.
Ashley was chosen as Miss Canada and represented Canada at International pageants held in China, Germany and Barbados. Ashley continues to be a motivational speaker and role model for many educational institutions, workshops, conferences and award ceremonies throughout North America. Ashley got the chance to speak at Harvard University, Boston as the keynote speaker for an All Ivy Native Council and TED Talks. Because of Ashley’s hard work and charity work she received the Role Model Award at the Dreamcatcher Gala in Calgary 2011. Ashley also received the Top 20 Under 30 Award in Canada in the fall of 2012.

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