Our Team

Trisha Beaty (she/her) has a life long relationship with nature. In her late teens, she joined Nature Vancouver and subsequently worked as a Park Naturalist in the BC Parks system. Trisha’s connection to nature and its biodiversity inspired her to pursue an undergraduate pathway in Zoology. She  transferred into Health Sciences, graduating from UBC’s Faculty of Medicine, and completing her medical residency in New Zealand. Trisha has worked in various medical areas of family practise in both Ontario and B.C. including women’s health, labour and delivery, adolescent health, family practise and travel medicine. For the last ten years of her medical career she taught medical students at UBC. Trisha is the co-founder and Vice-President of the Sitka Foundation, a family foundation with a simple mission: to be a catalyst in the conservation of nature and the protection of biodiversity. She also enjoys participating on the board of Ecojustice and Birds Canada. When she is not birding, she may be off kayaking, hiking  or cycling or sharing time with her ever growing family.

Trisha has been a Director since 2017.