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2025
Speakers

Dani Warren

Great Bear Carbon Credit Limited Partnership

Dani Warren is the Senior Manager, Sales and Operations for the Great Bear Carbon Credit Limited Partnership. An entity owned by communities of Coastal First Nations – Great Bear Initiative. An alliance of nine First Nations living on British Columbia’s North and Central Coast and Haida Gwaii whose mission is to protect and conserve the environment and work in partnership with all levels of Government, NGO’s and others to create a new conservation-based economy within the respective Traditional Territories. Dani manages carbon credit sales, partnerships and operations working with First Nations leadership in decision making and policy matters related to the two Great Bear Forest Carbon Projects. Dani has a background in project management and holds a certificate in Forest Carbon Management from the University of British Columbia. Dani is Cree from the Montreal Lake Cree Nation, located in Treaty 6 territory, Saskatchewan from her mothers side and Scottish, English and Danish from her fathers side. Dani is a competitive bagpiper and teacher, bagpiping for 20 years. Dani is currently on maternity leave as a new mother to her 5-month old son Carson.

Bryan Van Stippen

National Indian Carbon Coalition

Bryan Van Stippen- is Program Director for National Indian Carbon Coalition, an initiative of the Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) that provides education, training, and technical assistance to American Indian tribes, Alaska Native Villages & Corporations, Native Hawaiian organizations and First Nations in Canada on the development of carbon credit and renewable energy projects on tribal land. A member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, Van Stippen previously served for seven years as Tribal Attorney for the Ho-Chunk Nation Department of Justice in Wisconsin where he was responsible for land acquisition and other land-related issues. He earned a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration and a Masters in Computer Information Systems from Tarleton State University in Texas. Van Stippen is a graduate of the University of North Dakota School of Law (J.D.); the University of Tulsa College of Law (LL.M. in American Indian and Indigenous Law); and the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law (S.J.D in Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy). He lives with his wife and two children in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Bryan Van Stippen

Passamaquoddy Recognition Group Inc., Wabanaki Land Back Partnership

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