Jessica Lansfield
Jessica Lansfield is a Senior Engagement Facilitator with TWC, and holds over 15 years of experience in community engagement, research, and strategic planning across various sectors. Jessica’s role focuses on relationship building, Engagement processes, and collaborative strategic planning. Jessica is an attentive communicator and group facilitator, skilled in comprehensive research, analysis, and planning. She assists groups and organizations that are navigating multiple variables and perspectives to create pathways forwar
Kyle Hilsendager
Kyle Hilsendager is the Technical Lead for Reconciliation at TWC, and also serves as Chair of the TWC Reconciliation Committee. He is a member of ‘Namgis First Nation and is motivated by a strong interest in the land and resource management challenges that affect Indigenous communities. Kyle has extensive experience representing Indigenous interests on projects relating to Reconciliation, land management and natural resource development. He has also spent over ten years teaching and developing curriculum at the post-secondary level, and has years of experience working directly with First Nations students
Melanie Demers
Melanie Demers is a Lands & Culture Specialist at TWC. She is a Kanyen’kehá:ka member of Six Nations and is Québecois. Melanie is a technical resource on reconciliation projects and regulatory services at TWC. Her past experiences as an author, facilitator, researcher, and consultant have strengthened her ability to present results and perform quantative and qualitative data analysis in many contexts. Melanie is passionate about the application of Two-Eyed Seeing in her work with Indigenous nations, and she values community, collaboration, and lifelong learning.
Aurora Van Buren
Aurora Van Buren is TWC's Human Environment Manager. In this capacity, she leads and supports the performance of the Lands & Culture, Engagement, Social Impact and Reconciliation Teams. Aurora has had the privilege of collaborating with Indigenous Nations across Canada to document Indigenous Knowledge for use by Indigenous Governments, as well as in consultation and Regulatory processes. Aurora as been a technical lead on both federally and provincially regulated impact assessments throughout Canada, providing expert testimony for review panels. The landscape of environmental management is rapidly changing, and Aurora has developed new assessment methods to address emerging project risks and respond to increased expectations of all parties. A proven public speaker, Aurora has also led public open houses and workshops for controversial projects.
Davin Contois
Davin Contois is Métis and an Environmental & Social Analyst. In his role he conducts research, develops reports, and does background analyses. Davin’s knowledge of reconciliation work has been learned and practiced in formal work settings and educational institutions, in addition to his lived experience to many situations pertaining to reconciliation.
Draco Recalma
Draco Recalma is a two-spirit person from the pentl'ach and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm nations, and an Environmental & Social Analyst at TWC. In his role, Draco has expertise in GBA+ and intersectional analyses, OCAP® compliant research, Indigenous research methods, and Indigenous engagement/issues tracking for Indigenous interests assessments.
Emma Wilson
Emma Wilson is a Senior Engagement Facilitator with experience building and maintaining relationships with Indigenous communities across Canada. She develops effective Engagement planning, facilitates a variety of Engagement methods, and develops recommendations for clients. Trained under the International Association of Public Participation (IAP2), Emma's experience includes working in a variety of sectors such as transportation, mining, land and resource management, electric utilities, education, and policy for clients including crown and statutory corporations, private sector, and provincial and federal governments.
Erin Prelypchan
Erin Prelypchan is the Technical Lead, Engagement at TWC. She has 15 years of experience in impact assessment and community Engagement for major resource development projects, both in Canada and abroad. She also has 15 years of experience advising mining and oil/gas clients in the private sector on identifying and managing community risks to projects, both in Canada and overseas. As a former journalist and copyeditor for news media, Erin also brings skills in writing and copyediting that result in clear, consistent, and accessible documents. She is a skilled workshop facilitator in virtual and in-person formats. In her work for TWC, she advises Indigenous governments, the private sector and the public sector from municipal to federal levels.
Heidi Klein
Heidi Klein, Senior Consultant, has over 30 years experience in all matters related to environmental assessment and management including project assessment, human and community well-being related evaluations, legislation and policy advisor, Indigenous knowledge collection and inclusion in decision-making, and Indigenous and stakeholder relations. Heidi has a technical foundation in wildlife biology, land use planning, environmental assessment, and facilitation / mediation. Currently, she is focusing on legislation advice, Socio-economic effects of projects, poverty evaluations including programs and measures intended to improve economic opportunities, and Indigenous knowledge inclusion in decision-making relying on her experience in Indigenous knowledge collection and wildlife biology.