Title: Measuring What is Meaningful - Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Socio Economics and Community Based Indicators
Webinar Description: Come engage in conversation on how the integration of Indigenous knowledge can improve outcomes for government/industry and communities. Topics discussed are why is this important, how the relationship can and has changed from exploitative to mutually beneficial and how to look forward and backwards for guidance.
Speaker: Christy Smith
Speaker Bio: Christy Smith
Christy is a member of K’ómoks First Nation, living in her traditional territory on Vancouver Island. Christy has authentically navigated both Indigenous and non-indigenous worlds while working in the resource sector for over 25 years. Her work is deeply rooted in reconciliation and decolonizing the approach to ways of doing business. Engaging and building good relationships are at the core of what Christy does as a changemaker, mentor, liaison, project manager, and engagement expert. She has facilitated workshops, presented at national mining conventions, instructed at universities, de-escalated complex situations, mentored Indigenous entrepreneurs, negotiated countless benefits agreements, advocated on the behalf First Nations’ governments and industry proponents, and built capacity within every organization of which she has been a part. Christy has a BA in Native Studies from the University of Alberta and an MBA from the University of Northern British Columbia and is a wife and mother. Christy currently serves as a Partner and Vice President, Indigenous and Stakeholder Relations with Falkirk Environmental Consultants Ltd. of Vancouver and Vice President, Sustainability with TDG Gold Corp. She is currently serving as Vice Chair for the Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Committee for the Association for Mineral Exploration in BC. She has recently authored Weaving Two Worlds – Economic Reconciliation between Indigenous Peoples and the Resource Sector.
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