TEARA FRASER

Becoming a pilot was transformational, truly giving this Métis woman wings. Teara is the Founder of Iskwew Air and she recently launched an aero tech company – elibird aero. She believes that together in this innovative space we will reimagine, rematriate, and rebuild our air transportation system – centering equity and sustainability.

Teara founded the not-for-profit Indigenous LIFT Collective, the home of Give them Wings. She holds a Master of Arts in Leadership degree from Royal Roads University, and she serves as a Board Director for Aerial Evolution.

Teara has been named WXN Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100, Top 25 Women of Influence, YWCA Woman of Distinction, and one of 24 ‘real world heroes’ in the DC Comics Wonder Woman anthology. In 2023 she received the Indigenous Business Award of Distinction for Lifetime Achievement by the BC Achievement Foundation. In 2025 she was a winner in the Entrepreneurial Leader category of the 2025 Women of the Year Awards by BC Business.

Teara finds joy in a cup of fine earl grey tea, in a good book, and in the wilderness amongst the trees.