Steve DeRoy

Steve DeRoy is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and Director of Firelight. Steve founded the annual Indigenous Mapping Workshop and Indigenous Mapping Collective. He is an award-winning Anishinaabe professional and entrepreneur with expertise in mapping and geographic information sciences, business development, natural resources management, and project management. He has applied his expertise to lead Indigenous Knowledge Research for numerous Indigenous groups affected by large-scale energy developments.

Steve is a past board member of the Canadian Urban Institute, an advisory board member of the Institute for Integrative Conservation at William & Mary, a moderator of the Open Forum on Participatory Geographic Information Systems and Technologies, and a trainer of the Google Earth Outreach Trainers Network. He has also supported both Google and Apple to ensure Indigenous lands are represented on their maps.

He holds a master’s degree in Geographic Information Science from University College London and a Geographic Information Systems (GIS)- Cartographic Specialist diploma from Fleming College.

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