Denise Atkinson is the Founder and CEO of Tea Horse & Tipi Horse Connects, renowned for her profound dedication to supporting the inclusion, advancement, and representation of Indigenous women and Peoples in business. As a proud member of the Red Rock Indian Band, an Ojibwe First Nation in Northwestern Ontario, Denise was raised in a traditional land-based Anishinaabeg home, where she spent her formative years surrounded by her maternal grandparents and extended family.