Angela Wesley is the Province of British Columbia appointed commissioner. She is serving her third term and was first appointed in 2018. She is a citizen of the Huu-ay-aht First Nations (Nuu-chah-nulth), one of five First Nations implementing the Maa-nulth Treaty on the west coast of Vancouver Island.

Angela has worked with First Nations throughout BC for over 30 years, providing advice and facilitation focused on strategic planning, community development and engagement, communications, and governance capacity building. She was an active contributor throughout negotiations and ratification of the Maa-nulth treaty and the Huu-ay-aht Constitution and remains active in the implementing the treaty and rebuilding her self-governing Nation. Angela serves as Speaker for the Huu-ay-aht First Nations Legislature and Annual People’s Assemblies and served as Board Chair/President for the Huu-ay-aht Group of Businesses for eight years. She represents the five Maa-nulth First Nations on the tripartite treaty implementation committee and has served and continues to serve as a director on several First Nations, post-secondary and corporate boards and trusts.

Angela is actively involved in international discussions on Indigenous governance and leadership. She resides in her husband Gerald’s traditional territory of Kitsumkalum in Terrace and enjoys the company and teachings of her grandson.