Kitty R. Lynn Lickers is a grandma, auntie, mother, sister, friend and most important a storyteller. Kitty is Bearfoot Onondaga from Six Nations of the Grand River. She engages in every kind of food activity that leads toward access, sustainability and sovereignty in our food systems. She shares her love of cooking and enjoying food with her family and friends, many different classes, cooking on APTN programs as well as with different chefs. Kitty believes in cooking, growing, eating, preserving, and sharing good food with everyone. Kitty teaches part time at McMaster University and works with her granddaughter.  She strives toward sovereignty while recognizing and teaching about the importance of soil health, water seed saving and climate to our food systems. Kitty is a firm believer in the connections we have to each other, the land and the importance of every one getting what they need and want in regard to their food and food ways.