Steven Nitah

Steven is Managing Director at Nature for Justice (N4J) and leads their First 30x30 Canada program. Steven is a member and former tribal chief of the Łutsël K’é Dene First Nation, former CEO of the Nation’s Economic Development Department, and served as the Nations’ lead negotiator in the creation of the Thaidene Nëné Indigenous Protected Area—“The Land of the Ancestors”. He was also a core member of the Indigenous Circle of Experts, contributing to the historic report, “We Rise Together”, which presents a pathway for achieving Canada’s conservation targets through “the creation of Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas in the spirit and practice of reconciliation”. Steven is also part of the Leadership Circle of the Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership (CRP).