City of Williams Lake Hires First Indigenous Relations, Climate Action and Active Transportation Co-ordinator

Natalie Swift has been hired as the City of Williams Lake’s first Indigenous Relations, Climate Action, and Active Transportation Co-ordinator.

In the new role, created at the direction of Council, Swift will work to advance relations with local Indigenous communities, and implement initiatives to reduce the City’s climate impacts.

All three themes to the role had been identified by council as priorities in their 2022-26 Strategic Plan.

Swift has been working as the City’s Recovery Co-ordinator with regards to flood recovery efforts at the River Valley for the past two years.

She brings a background in environmental management, and experience working with Indigenous communities to the new role, which she will begin on August 8th.