Larry Grant is an Elder of the Vancouver Chinese community and the Musqueam Indian Band. He is Elder-in-Residence at the University of British Columbia’s First Nations House of Learning and the Justice Institute of BC. An adjunct professor with UBC’s Musqueam Language Program within the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, he co-teaches the first year hən’q’əmin’əm’ language course. He is a Faculty Fellow at St. John’s College, and the inaugural Honorary Life Fellow for Green College. For his day job he is Manager (Interim) of the Musqueam Language and Culture Department. He has participated in more than a dozen conferences on Indigenous subjects, including recent dialogues such as Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation process, the UBC apology to Residential School Survivors (alongside UBC president Santa Ono), and Challenging Racism 150.

In 2019, Larry received a President’s Medal from UBC, and in October 2023 he was given an honorary Doctor of Laws from Simon Fraser University. A Member of the Masked Dance Society, he has participated in traditional Musqueam ceremonies since 1946, and still gives regular Musqueam welcomes across Greater Vancouver.