Samantha Allan

Samantha Allan is a JD/JID (Juris Doctor and Juris Indigenarum Doctor) student in the Faculty of Law. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with a major in Management from Vancouver Island University (VIU). Allan has built up extensive experience in project management, event coordination, and community engagement. Her research focus is the intersection between traditional executive leadership and management principals and Indigenous business prosperity and economic development. She has served as a Project Assistant in the Office of the President at UVic, where she contributed to strategic initiatives and engaged widely with university stakeholders. She also serves as a Lands Officer for Indigenous Services Canada, working on land management projects that support Indigenous communities in Western Canada. Allan is Secwépemc te Neskonlith and British-Canadian, and she has called Vancouver Island home since 2009, living with gratitude in the territories of five Coast Salish and Nuu-chah-nulth nations.