Jackie Traverse is an Ojibway artist from Lake St. Martin First Nation and has served provincial time in the Portage jail in Manitoba. She completed a diploma in Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba in 2009. She works in mixed media producing pieces ranging from oil painting to sculpture. In November 2008, she won first prize in the Peace Hills Trust annual Aboriginal art contest. Jackie is an advocate on the issue of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada.
