Improving Indigenous communications one story at a time.
- Digital publishing for emerging Indigenous writers;
- Journalism, media & diversity training;
- Coaching & mentoring;
- Editing;
- Speech writing & coaching;
- Communications consulting.
An online, not-for-profit, sole proprietorship promoting Indigenous communications.
Dan David is Cornplanter Consulting.
- Dan is Bear Clan Mohawk, an award-winning journalist, writer, media trainer, teacher and storyteller.
- For 25 years, he bounced around CBC (TV and Radio news), TVOntario, VISION-TV, and APTN News as the Director of News.
- He was the Chair of Diversity and taught radio at Ryerson School of Journalism.
- Dan has trained journalists across Canada, in South Asia, South Africa, and the Middle East.
“This is something I’ve probably been preparing for all my life.”
Recent Activities:
- Award Jurist – Canadian Association of Journalism (CAJ)
- TV Journalism Workshop – Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, APTN National News
- “So You Want to Write” – Free six-week writing workshops for Kanehsatake
- Board of Directors – Quebec Writers Federation (QWF)
- Developing Diversity Workshop – Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN)
- Created two blog sites:
- Kanehsatake Writes (featuring Kanehsatake:ronon creations)
- Article 31 (a global blog site featuring Indigenous writers of Canada)
- Re-launched personal writing blog as Shmohawk 3.0
- Writing a novel (working title: “The Garden of Wishful Thinking”)
