Spencer McKinley is an author and environmentalist. The 7th Fire has received rave reviews in MSN News, and 150 additional UK publications including Reader’s Digest UK, The Times, Female First, The Scotsman, and The Star. The author supports various environmental platforms, including Cultural Survival, Conservation International, WeForest, and Oceana. In 2014, before the Covid Crisis, the author served as a CPT Delegate monitoring a biochemical contamination discovered on First Nation Lands, in Ontario Canada. She is one of the rare outsiders to have witnessed first-hand the devastation at Treaty 3 Reserve. The catastrophe caused a political firestorm, resulting in the longest-running Blockade in Canadian history, and became known as the country’s worst environmental disaster.