EDMONTON – The issue of missing and murdered indigenous women is not a topic isolated to adult conversations.

Amanda Gould, a First Nations, Métis and Inuit liaison at Queen Elizabeth High School in north Edmonton, where about 150 of 1,200 students are indigenous, realized this after many students began asking her about what they were hearing in the news and what they could do to help. Some students even disclosed their own personal stories of how they and their families had been affected.

She and her colleague, Terry Godwaldt, director of programming with the Centre for Global Education, organized a video conference to raise awareness and start a conversation at their school and others across the country.