A member of the Lheidli T'enneh Nation will be the first to take the podium as an aboriginal alumni speaker series begins Monday at the University of Northern British Columbia.
Rena Zatorski graduated with a bachelor of arts in political science in 2002. As an undergraduate student, she participated in a field school in Russia to study the Sakha reindeer herders.
After graduating, Zatorski worked as a territory researcher for Lheidli T'enneh and has served two terms as an elected councillor where she was deeply involved the band's treaty process and the proposed final agreement.
She also spearheaded the Highway of Tears symposium in 2006, which brought together more than 90 different organizations, families and the public to speak to issues surrounding missing and murdered Aboriginal women.
In 2010, Zatorski received a certificate in project management through UNBC's continuing studies department and in 2012 began Red Earth Management, which provide project management services to First Nations.
She is also attending Simon Fraser University, where she's working on an executive master of business administration degree through the Beedie School of Business.
The event will be held in Agora room 7-152 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and is free and open to the public.
It will be followed by a reception at the Elders Room in the First Nations Centre.
As many as 10 aboriginal alumni from across the region will be featured in the series.
For more information contact aboriginal community connections co-ordinator Veronica Haddon at 250-960-5329.
