Jesse Wente
Well known as a film critic and broadcaster in Toronto and across Canada, Jesse was the first nationally syndicated Indigenous columnist for the CBC, covering film and pop culture for 20 local CBC Radio programs. He has also been a regular guest on CBC Newsworld’s News Morning and Weekend Edition, as well as Q. Jesse is the author of the National Bestseller "Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance". Jesse is Ojibwe, and his family comes from Chicago and the Serpent River First Nation in Ontario. Jesse is Chair of the board of directors for the
Well known as a film critic and broadcaster in Toronto and across Canada, Jesse was the first nationally syndicated Indigenous columnist for the CBC, covering film and pop culture for 20 local CBC Radio programs. He has also been a regular guest on CBC Newsworld’s News Morning and Weekend Edition, as well as Q. Jesse is the author of the National Bestseller "Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance". Jesse is Ojibwe, and his family comes from Chicago and the Serpent River First Nation in Ontario. Jesse is Chair of the board of directors for the
Canada Council for the Arts.
Canada Council for the Arts.
Jesse Wente's book Unreconciled: Family, Truth and Indigenous Resistance is available to borrow through the ETSB central library collection. *For ETSB employees only