Kaitlin Ann Trepanier

I have been a storyteller as long as I can remember, but it is only now that I recall at age eight I knew I wanted to be a writer, but the culture I grew up did not believe writing could be a real job. Thankfully, the limiting ingrained belief has been ousted and replaced with the freedom to be the writer I was born to be even though many people still hold the old belief.

Grew up in southern Ontario in Wallaceburg, Ontario Canada six miles from the St. Clair River dividing Canada and the United States among farmers' fields, factories, American boating tourists, Catholicism, a Native American reserve, and on the Underground Railway Trail. As part of an "invisible minority," my life reflects the complications, seriousness, and tragedies of being different from the majority and/or the preferred dominant group. As a result, my experiences and subsequent research resulted in my developing a concept to transform respect from a value to a principle in order for all people, not some people, to be valued ... respected. Just completed my book, Broken Compass and recently recorded my first podcast for my social business venture, Connecting The Dots With The Respect Principle.