Kat Nystedt, ballot number 322 for School Board in Vancouver, TEAM for a Livable Vancouver. Profile focus: School facilities and everyday family needs.
This record covers what TEAM for a Livable Vancouver's campaign page says about Kat Nystedt and the reporting that names the candidate. Each item names its source.
The score counts how complete and checkable the published plan on this issue is. Whether the plan would work is a separate question, left to the reader. Measured October 4, 2026. The same seven points apply to every candidate for this office.
Schools and student support4/10
2/2
A position in the candidate’s own words
“Pause the rollout of Microsoft Copilot 13+ in secondary schools until research shows that the benefits outweigh the risks”
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’s platform on schools: 9 commitments, at least one with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Board of Education runs Vancouver public schools, sets catchment boundaries and approves the district budget. Teacher pay and the provincial funding formula are set by the province.
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
What this office controls. Council, the Park Board and the Board of Education each set their own meeting rules, committees, public consultation and reporting. The Vancouver Charter and the School Act create the three bodies and set their powers, and only the Province can change those acts.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver publishes 5 commitments on this issue.
0/2
Names a mechanism the office controls
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/2
States a measurable target
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a cost or funding source
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a timeline
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
0/1
Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’s platform on taxes and budget: 5 commitments, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Board of Education approves the school district’s operating and capital budgets. The Province sets the funding formula and the school tax.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver publishes 4 commitments on this issue.
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Names a mechanism the office controls
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
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States a measurable target
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a cost or funding source
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a timeline
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
0/1
Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’s platform on public safety: 4 commitments, none with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Board of Education sets safety policies for its schools and decides whether police liaison officers work in them. Policing itself is the Vancouver Police Department’s.
Party platform; candidate not quoted. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver publishes 2 commitments on this issue.
0/2
Names a mechanism the office controls
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/2
States a measurable target
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a cost or funding source
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
States a timeline
Party text earns no points here; the statement must be the candidate’s own.
0/1
A dated, sourced action on the issue
No dated public action on this issue found.
0/1
Answered the voche.me question on the issue
The questionnaire has not been sent yet. No candidate has this point.
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver’s platform on child care: 2 commitments, at least one with a number. Party text earns the candidate the position point only.
What this office controls. The Board of Education decides how school buildings and land are used, including child care on school sites. Licensing and operating funding are provincial.
On dates without a confirmed appearance the public schedule is unknown; the candidate may still have activities that day. This static page changes only when its research is updated.
01 / Introduction
About Kat Nystedt
Kat Nystedt appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for School Board, with ballot number 322. The City records the affiliation as TEAM for a Livable Vancouver.
The campaign says Nystedt works as a server and supervisor at a restaurant in Kitsilano. The page says Nystedt studied Culinary Arts at VCC and is a member of the Union of British Columbia Performers.
The campaign page also says Nystedt is the mother of two children who attend the same Vancouver elementary school that she did.
Daily Hive reported on August 6, 2026 that TEAM added five candidates, with Nystedt the party's school board candidate, and wrote that Nystedt is the daughter of Colleen Hardwick, TEAM's candidate for mayor.
TEAM's candidate list shows Nystedt as the party's only school board candidate for 2026.
Nystedt appears on the October 17, 2026 school board ballot at number 322 for TEAM. The Tyee referred to the same candidate as Kathryn Nystedt.
Vancouver Is Awesome reported on September 28, 2026 that TEAM identified Nystedt as one of four Indigenous candidates fielded by three parties in this election, and that this is her first run for any office. Asked why so few Indigenous people run in civic elections, she told the outlet by email that she was not sure.
In answers to The Griffins' Nest, the Eric Hamber Secondary student newspaper, Nystedt wrote that her top priorities are openness with parents and residents and budget money for arts, music and physical education programs. In a second set of answers she wrote that students in kindergarten to grade 12 should not use generative AI in class.
voche.me assembled this profile from the official candidate list and the campaign material linked under Sources. The campaign has not been contacted, and no candidate-supplied content appears on this page.
Published positions and selected commitments, separated by election cycle. Status labels describe the evidence reviewed, not a numerical score or a complete audit of the platform. Council approval is different from delivery.
7 commitments shown · Checked Oct 4
2026 · TechnologyCampaign pledge
Pause the Copilot rollout in schools
Pause the Vancouver School Board's rollout of Microsoft Copilot 13+ in secondary schools until research shows the benefits outweigh the risks and students, families and teachers have been consulted. This is a TEAM platform item that Nystedt cited in her own questionnaire answer.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
TEAM's executive director gave this position to The Tyee by email in August 2026. On September 28, 2026, Nystedt's own answer to The Griffins' Nest quoted the same item from TEAM's education policy. She names the Board's own rollout as the thing to pause. Neither source gives a cost or a date.
What still needs checking
Whether a TEAM trustee would bring a motion to pause the rollout, and what research would end the pause.
2026 · Planning for future generationsCampaign pledge
Planning for future generations
Nystedt told TEAM members at the July 30, 2026 nomination meeting that she trusts TEAM is committed to planning for future generations of residents in neighbourhoods across the city, and that is why she joined the party.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
TEAM's August 4, 2026 post on its own website quotes Nystedt making this statement directly. The TEAM candidate page repeats the same reason in the third person. The statement names no school, budget, safety or child care measure, so it is not tied to any issue this office scores.
What still needs checking
What would this cost, who would deliver it, and by when?
Nystedt wrote that her top priority would be openness with parents and residents, and that she wants them to be heard and told clearly about Board policies and plans.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Her own answer to The Griffins' Nest, September 22, 2026, and her emailed answer to Vancouver Is Awesome, September 28, 2026. Neither names a Board rule, meeting change, cost or date.
Budget money for arts, music and physical education
Nystedt wrote that she would focus on putting money in the Board's budget for arts, music and physical education programs.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Her own answer to The Griffins' Nest, September 22, 2026, repeated in her answer to Vancouver Is Awesome. She names the Board budget as the tool. She gives no dollar figure, no source for the money, no number of programs or schools and no date.
What still needs checking
How much money, taken from which part of the budget, and in which school year?
Safe school spaces and play equipment for each age group
Nystedt wrote that she wants children to have safe spaces to learn and play, with the proper equipment for each age group, and told Vancouver Is Awesome she wants suitable equipment on school grounds.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Her own answers to The Griffins' Nest, September 22, 2026, and to Vancouver Is Awesome, September 28, 2026. She names no school, no number of playgrounds, no cost and no date.
No generative AI for students in kindergarten to grade 12
Nystedt wrote that students in kindergarten to grade 12 classrooms should not use AI, that they should first learn to write and think on their own, and that any use of AI is best left to colleges and universities.
Evidence & next checks
Evidence reviewed
Her own answer to The Griffins' Nest, September 28, 2026. She does not say which Board policy would carry this out, or when.
What still needs checking
Which Board policy would set this rule, and from which school year?
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No reviewed entries have been added to this section yet. This is a research gap, not a finding about the candidate.
Recent appearances / Read and watch
Talks, interviews & statements
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Statement
Answers to The Griffins' Nest questionnaire: why she is running and her priorities
In answers published unedited by the Eric Hamber Secondary student newspaper, Nystedt wrote that she wants to make a difference for her own children and the city's children, with safe spaces to learn and play, enough arts and physical education, and the right equipment for each age group. Her top priorities are openness with parents and residents and budget money for arts, music and physical education programs.
Answer to The Griffins' Nest questionnaire on generative AI in schools
Nystedt wrote that students should learn grammar, sentence structure and logic and think on their own before any AI use, that AI uses water and electricity, and that students should not use it in kindergarten to grade 12 classrooms. She quoted TEAM's platform item to pause Microsoft Copilot 13+ in secondary schools.
Emailed answers to Vancouver Is Awesome on Indigenous candidates
Asked why few Indigenous people run in Vancouver's civic elections, Nystedt said she was not sure and hoped they would have the same chances as everyone. She said she is running because she has two children in the school system, and that she wants openness for parents, enough arts, physical education and music programs, suitable equipment on school grounds, and children who are safe.
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News coverage / Original publishers
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Reporting
Daily Hive
TEAM adds five candidates for Vancouver election
TEAM named five more candidates for the October election. Nystedt was the school board candidate in that group, described as a Kitsilano restaurant worker and as the daughter of the party's mayoral candidate.
TEAM told The Tyee it would halt the promotion of Copilot at the Vancouver School Board until research and policies are in place. Nystedt is named as the party's trustee candidate.
Indigenous candidates are few in Vancouver civic election
Mike Howell reported that three parties identified four Indigenous candidates, Nystedt among them, all running for School Board or Park Board. The story was updated to add Nystedt's answers, which arrived after the deadline.
Sources checked October 4, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
For Our Kids Vancouver and PACES Vancouver · September 25, 2026
Nystedt's own statements found so far are her answers to The Griffins' Nest questionnaires of September 22 and 28, 2026, her emailed answers to Vancouver Is Awesome, and two short statements on TEAM's own pages. Two of her commitments name a Board tool (the budget, and a pause of the Copilot rollout), and none names a cost, a measurable target or a date. No recording or report of a forum where she spoke was found. The City's candidate list shows no social media and no contact route for her, and no personal campaign website was found. VoteMate has no profile submitted by her; it lists two TEAM city promises on parking and sidewalks, which are outside a trustee's power. No independent source confirms the college studies or the union membership. Her nomination papers are linked from the City's list and have not been read. No public role is on record, so no minutes search applies. TEAM's online event list for its neighbourhood meetings does not name her, so no TEAM event is recorded here.
Research status
What voche.me has checked
Evidence reviewed on October 4, 2026: the TEAM candidate page, TEAM's August 4, 2026 announcement of Nystedt's nomination, TEAM's Schools platform page, the City's candidate list, The Griffins' Nest questionnaires of September 22 and 28, 2026, Vancouver Is Awesome's September 28, 2026 report, Daily Hive's August 6 and September 22, 2026 reports, The Tyee's August 11, 2026 report on school AI policy, and the VoteMate profile.
7 commitments in Nystedt's own words are tagged here, each checked against a quotation from the page it comes from. Two of them name a Board tool: budget money for arts, music and physical education, and a pause of the Microsoft Copilot 13+ rollout. None names a cost, a measurable target or a date.
Checks still to do: a recording or report of any forum where Nystedt spoke, and her nomination papers, which the City links but voche.me has not read.
The ballot name, office, ballot number and party label come from the City's final candidate list. Everything described as campaign material is the campaign's own account and has not been confirmed by an independent source, except where a source other than the campaign is named.
03 / Background
Experience & community
Current
Server and supervisor, Kitsilano restaurant
The campaign page gives this as the current job. Daily Hive described the same work when the candidacy was announced.
Proposed questions for a future interview. They have not been sent to the candidate, and no answers have been supplied.
Which school or program access problem would you prioritize, and what action could trustees take?
No response has been submitted.
How would you balance student learning support, facilities and staffing within the district’s available funding?
No response has been submitted.
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05 / About this page
Questions about this page
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Is this an official page for Kat Nystedt?
No. This page is researched by voche.me from public sources, listed below, and is separate from Kat Nystedt's own campaign.
What is Kat Nystedt's ballot number for the 2026 Vancouver election?
Kat Nystedt is number 322 on the City of Vancouver's official 2026 ballot for School Board.
What party did Kat Nystedt run with?
Kat Nystedt ran for School Board with TEAM for a Livable Vancouver.
Does Kat Nystedt currently hold public office?
Not according to this profile. voche.me has not listed a current public office for Kat Nystedt.
How many sources does this Kat Nystedt profile cite?
This profile lists 5 sourced references, each with the date voche.me checked it, in the Sources section below.
Has Kat Nystedt filed nomination papers for the 2026 election?
voche.me has not yet added a nomination record for Kat Nystedt. This does not mean no nomination paper was filed, only that voche.me has not completed that research yet.
Why do some questions on Kat Nystedt's page show no answer?
The "Questions & answers" section on this page lists questions voche.me would put to Kat Nystedt in a future interview. They have not been sent yet, so the page says plainly that no answer has been supplied instead of leaving the section blank.
When was the election Kat Nystedt ran in?
The 2026 Vancouver municipal election, including the School Board race, was decided on October 17, 2026.
06 / Candidate contributions
Space for campaign updates
Added her questionnaire answers, a Vancouver Is Awesome report and an online forum
Added Nystedt's answers to The Griffins' Nest questionnaires of September 22 and 28, 2026 and her emailed answers in Vancouver Is Awesome's September 28, 2026 report on Indigenous candidates. Added four commitments in her own words (openness with parents, money for arts, music and physical education, safe spaces and play equipment, and no generative AI for students in kindergarten to grade 12). Her September 28 answer cites TEAM's pause on Microsoft Copilot 13+, so that commitment is now marked as her own position. Added the October 6 online forum for trustee candidates, with attendance unconfirmed. Read the City's candidate list through a reader service: it shows no social media or contact route for Nystedt. Removed two biography paragraphs that repeated the second paragraph, and removed the October 3 advance voting day from the calendar because that date has passed.
Tagged the dossier for scoring and added a direct quote from Nystedt
Added TEAM's August 4, 2026 nomination announcement, which quotes Nystedt directly, and TEAM's Schools platform page to the archive. Merged a duplicate commitment that restated the same sentence from the TEAM candidate page under two ids, tagged the remaining commitments with an issue, whether they are Nystedt's own words, and a quote checked word for word against the archived page, and added the biographical detail about her children's school from the same page.
