*DATE CHANGED to March 29th*
12:30 pm to 1:50 pm
1221 Forest Science Centre
Open to the public, seats limited
RSVP: andrea.lyall@ubc.ca
Bio: Bev Sellars is a former councillor and chief of the Xat’sull (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia. First elected chief of Xat’sull in 1987, a position she held from 1987-1993 and then from 2009-2015. She also worked as a community advisor for the BC Treaty Commission. Bev served as the representative for the Secwepemc communities on the Cariboo Chilcotin Justice Inquiry in the early 1990s and has spoken out on racism and residential schools and on the environmental and social threats of mineral resources exploitation in her region.