Taja Sevelle
Taja Sevelle (born Nancy Richardson, January 7, 1962 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known for her 1987 single, "Love Is Contagious" and for the non-profit organization Urban Farming, which she founded in 2005.
Tasha Hubbard
Born in 1973, Hubbard's birth name was Carrie Alaine Pinay. Her biological mother was a young single Saulteaux/Métis/Cree woman whose parents and grandparents, as well as Hubbard's Cree/Nakota father, were all placed into the Canadian Indian residential school system. With limited support from family and social services, Hubbard mother's gave her to a social worker she had trusted and Hubbard was placed for adoption through the "Saskatchewan Adopt Indian Metis (AIM)" pilot project, part of the Sixties Scoop. Raised on a farm near Avonlea, Hubbard's adoptive parents were supportive of her search—it was her adoptive mother who first asked Hubbard, at the age of 14, if she wanted to find her biological family. Their search would take almost two years, until they hired a Cree lawyer who located Hubbard's birth mother in just two weeks—and turned out to be a friend of her biological father. She met her birth mother three days after her sixteenth birthday, followed by her father, three weeks later. She would go on to reunite with all of her ten siblings—the last, a sister, at the age of twenty-two.