Angela Wesley, ICD.D, is a partner in Wes-Can Advisory Services providing advisory and support services in the areas of strategic planning, land management, community development, communications, community engagement, and governance capacity building and development. A highlight of Angela’s career over the past 30 years has been her role in working with the team that negotiated and is now implementing the Maa-nulth Treaty where her own First Nation (Huu-ay-aht) along with four others have been self-governing since April 2011. Since that time she has served as Speaker (Legislative Chairperson) for the Huu-ay-aht First Nations Legislature and Annual People’s Assemblies.
She serves on a number of boards including Technical Safety BC, Coast Funds, and has previously served on other boards such as the Royal British Columbia Museum, the New Relationship Trust and as Chair of the Board of Governors for the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology and Chair/President for the Huu-ay-aht First Nations Group of Businesses.
Angela is often invited to share her experiences with other First Nations in British Columbia, as well as indigenous groups nationally and internationally. She resides in her husband’s traditional territory of Kitsumkalum in Terrace, BC and enjoys the company and teachings of her teenage grandson.