Gwen Bridge

A member of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation, Gwen's career has been centered around providing advice, developing strategies, and managing natural resource-related projects for First Nations and their partners, including in land and water planning, protected areas planning, and policy. Gwen has worked with the Mescalero Apache, the Makah Tribe, the Okanagan Nation Alliance, and other First Nations and First Nations organizations. As all levels of government aspire to improve indigenous relations Gwen has been developing capacity in those and other organizations to advance reconciliation. Gwen has been recently working on indigenous-led conservation including caribou habitat protection and old growth protection with the Okanagan Nation Alliance and negotiating and planning for the South Okanagan Similkameen National Park Reserve and an indigenous proteced and conserved area in Canada. Gwen has a Master of Science in Renewable Resources with a thesis specialization in forestry hydrology and this grounding along with strength in indigenous perspectives, facilitates strong strategy development. Gwen has been advising the evolving provincial policy environment in British Columbia, Canada, for forestry and climate change, land use planning, and Indigenous-led conservation in BC. Gwen teaches courses in Ethical Space and Indigenous Leadership at University nuhelot’ine thaiyots’i nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills and is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia. Gwen has provided Ethical Space training and consulting to many levels of government and is coordinating lead author for the Transboundary Policy Options chapter of the North American Biodiversity and Climate Change Assessment. She is a member of the RAD Network Leadership Circle.