Nathan is currently on secondment to the Nature Conservancy of Canada as a senior advisor on Indigenous relations, helping to lead the organization’s efforts to improve how it engages with Indigenous People. His substantive position is with Parks Canada where he has been working for the past 15 years, most recently as the manager of resource conservation at Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, and has led a variety of innovative and award-winning projects regarding conservation and restoration. Nathan also works with the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) and currently sits on the Management Committee for Nááts’įhch’oh National Park Reserve to support the rights of Sahtu Dene and Metis. Through these different opportunities, Nathan has had the opportunity to collaborate with First Nations, Metis, and Inuit people from coast to coast to coast, and at national, regional, and local levels, and focuses much of his efforts to help organizations advance their abilities to properly respect and support Indigenous People’s efforts to conserve and steward their homelands. He holds a BSc in Environmental Science from UBC and a Masters in Environmental Studies from Dalhousie University. Nathan currently resides on Salt Spring Island in the traditional territory of the Hul’q’umi’num and WSANEC People with his family.