Book Angela Sterritt, Indigenous History & Affairs Speaker

About This Speaker

Angela Sterritt is an award-winning investigative journalist, national bestselling author, and TV, radio, and podcast host. She is from the Wilps ‘Wii Ḵ’aax of the Gitanmaax community within the Gitxsan Nation on her father’s side, and from Bell Island, Newfoundland, on her mother’s side. Sterritt spent more than a decade as a television, radio, and digital journalist at CBC. There, she also hosted the award-winning CBC podcast Land Back.

Her book Unbroken blends memoir with an investigation into the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls. It became an instant national bestseller in 2023. It also earned nominations for the Governor General’s Literary Awards and the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

Her second book, Breakable, examines how racism and colonialism cultivate harmful behaviours in men. It also shows how Indigenous men and communities are breaking cycles of unhealthy masculinity. 

Sterritt’s reporting has earned national recognition. In 2021, she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Reporter for her coverage of an Indigenous man and his 12-year-old granddaughter, who police arrested while they tried to open a BMO bank account. The same story won a national RTDNA award. In 2020, the Canadian Screen Awards nominated her for Best Local Reporter for her coverage of Indigenous babies apprehended by the Ministry of Children and Family Development. In 2019, her documentary on Indigenous perspectives on the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion won an RTDNA award for Best Long Feature. Vancouver Magazine also named her to its 2020 Power 50 list.

In addition, Sterritt serves on the First Nations, Inuit and Métis Advisory Circle of the Office of the Federal Ombudsperson for Victims of Crime.

As a motivational speaker, she has delivered more than 300 talks, including a TED Talk on smashing stereotypes of Indigenous people. Her talks cover overcoming adversity, breaking stereotypes, and creating change in Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.

Speaker Fee: $5,000 - $10,000

Speaking Topics: Angela Sterritt

Inspiring Teachers

In Angela’s rise to become a significant storyteller and educator, she reflects on what got her here. From a homeless teen to a high-profile journalist, she recognizes the teachers who encouraged her to become a journalist, challenged herself in her educational journey, and were a place of safety and comfort in times of need. As a mother, she speaks about the elevated importance of teachers during the global pandemic, in building community, safety, and peace. Angela shares how important the role of teachers is to better support and impart knowledge about Indigenous people, cultures, and communities.

The Power of Story: Speaking Up to Disrupt Systems

How truth-telling challenges silence, shifts narratives, and exposes the systems that depend on people staying quiet. Drawing from investigative journalism and lived experience, this keynote explores how stories can move people—and institutions—toward change.

MMIWG2S : Naming the Crisis, Reclaiming the Future

Drawing upon years of investigative journalism and lived experience, this keynote explores the ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people—while also centering the strength, leadership, and love within Indigenous communities. Moving beyond awareness, it calls for accountability from institutions and individuals alike, while highlighting the ways people are already creating change: speaking up, restoring balance, and building safer communities. This is a talk about truth—but also about possibility, responsibility, and the collective work of shaping a different future.

Breaking the Cycle: Rethinking Masculinity, Power, and Responsibility

At a time when we are seeing more clearly how power is abused, protected, and normalized, this keynote asks deeper questions about where these behaviours come from—and how they can change. Drawing from research and stories that inform Sterritt’s second book, Breakable, this talk centers on the men who are already doing the work: returning to responsibility, reconnecting to care, and showing up differently for their families and communities. She looks at what becomes possible when cycles are interrupted, when men are supported to heal, take accountability, and lead in ways that create safety.

We Are the Medicine: Indigenous Knowledge, Law, and the Path Forward

Grounded in Indigenous knowledge systems and ancestral teachings, this keynote is about remembering who we are and where we come from. It centers Indigenous law, practices, and ways of being—not as something in the past, but as living guidance for how we care for one another, take responsibility, and create safety in our communities. Rather than looking outward for solutions, this talk reminds us that the answers have always been here—in our relationships, in the land, and in the teachings we carry.

Beyond Allyship: Responsibility, Action, and the Work No One Can Do for You

A direct and honest conversation about the limits of allyship. This talk pushes audiences—especially settlers—to move from asking “what can I do?” to taking responsibility for their own learning, action, and impact.

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