Board and Staff

The NENAS Board of Directors consists of ten members appointed from each of the First Nations in our northeast British Columbia service delivery area, with one member to represent the Treaty 8 urban population and one general urban representative. The current Board of Directors are:

Blueberry River First Nation – Randa Adekat, Secretary/Treasurer
Daylu Dene Council – Deputy Chief Walter Carlick, Chair
Doig River First Nation - Gerry Attachie, Director
Fort Nelson First Nation – Chief Liz Logan, Director
Halfway River First Nation – Diane Bigfoot, Director
Prophet River First Nation – Shelley Chipesia, Director
Saulteau First Nation – Audrey Norris, Director
West Moberly First Nation - Brandi Scott, Co-Chair
Treaty 8 Urban Representative - Chief Roland Wilson, Director
Urban Representative – Kathi Dickie, Director

NENAS Staff

NENAS has a number of staff who play an important role in delivering holistic human resource programming for the benefit of Aboriginal people in Northeast BC. Our staff consists of:

NENAS Main Administrative Complex

Executive Director	Audrey Sam	asam@nenas.org
Quality Assurance Manager	Patricia Letendre	pletendre@nenas.org
Finance Officer	Donna Wilkerson	dwilkerson@nenas.org
Administrative Assistant	Cynthia Wolter	cwolter@nenas.org
Program Officer	Cindy Rost	crost@nenas.org
Program Officer	Cheryl Testawitch	clanovaz@nenas.org
Employment Assistance Officer	Dave Terry	dterry@nenas.org
Aboriginal Infant Development	Darlene Conley	dconley@nenas.org

Sas Natsadle Aboriginal Head Start fsjheadstart@nenas.org

Head Early Childhood Educator	Darlene Conley
Early Childhood Education/Cultural Teacher	Tylene Paquette
Early Childhood Education/Nutrition	Tara-Lei Royer
Bus Driver/Maintenance	John Cardinal
Cree Teacher	Mosom Al Cardinal
Cree Teacher	Kookum Christine Auger

Rising Spirit Aboriginal Youth Centre

Program Coordinator	Dacia Douhaibi	ddouhaibi@nenas.org
Employment Assistance Services	Lisa Herle	lherle@nenas.org

Dawson Creek Satellite Office

Employment Assistance Services	Lloyd Feere	lfeere@nenas.org
Employment Assistance Services	Nadeen Sinclair	nsinclair@nenas.org

Fort Nelson Satellite Office

Employment Assistance Services	Samantha Kotchea	skotchea@nenas.org
Employment Assistance Services	Sarah Bertrand	sbertrand@nenas.org