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Angela Sterritt
Sterritt is an Investigative Journalist at CBC & Author and Gitxsan member of the Gitanmaax First Nation. In 2021, Sterritt won an Academy Award (Canadian Screen Award) for Best Reporter of the Year in Canada for her impactful coverage of an Indigenous man and his granddaughter’s arrest while trying to open a bank account. Her reporting earned her a national Radio Television Digital News Association award. Named in Vancouver Magazine’s Power 50 list in 2020, she was also nominated for best local reporter by the Canadian Screen Awards. With numerous accolades, including the Investigative Award of the Year for covering missing and murdered Indigenous women, Sterritt is a trailblazer in Indigenous journalism and education.