Anthony Moore comes from the Nisga’a Village of Gitwinksihlkw, located in the Northwest Coast of BC. He graduated from the Emergency Management Certificate Program in 2016. Anthony has been employed by Nisga’a Lisims Government since 2013 and is currently the Emergency Response Services Manager. There he provides direction of emergency management and business continuity, as well as providing strategic guidance and continuity in corporate knowledge to ensure legal compliance of the Emergency Program Act, and Health and Safety Legislation for the Nisga’a Nation. He also manages a 20-person Nisga’a Wildland Fire Unit crew, contracted with BC Wildfire Service from 2019. Anthony spearheaded training and development of the Nisga’a Nation joining a new initiative from the Canadian Coast Guard known as “Coastal Nations Coast Guard Auxiliary” in April 2020. This is a First Nations led program for seven coastal nations along BC’s coast.

Anthony also serves on the Board of Directors in various capacities locally, provincially and nationally, they are as follows:

• President of First Nations Emergency Services Society (FNESS) since 2018 to present
• Vice President for Indigenous Firefighters Association of Canada (IFAC) since 2019 to present
• Vice President for Coastal Nations Coast Guard Auxiliary since 2020 to present
• Vice-Chair of Nisga’a Valley Health Authority from 2018 to 2020
• BC Association of Emergency Managers since 2017 to 2020
• BC Tripartite Emergency Management Working Group since 2018 to present
• Vice President of Gitwinksihlkw Volunteer Firefighters society since 2014 to present
• Band Master for Gitwinksihlkw Salvation Army Mission Board since 2016 to present
• Director for Majagaleehl Nisga’a Concert Band – Board of Directors since 2013 to present
• Director for Gitwinksihlkw Four Crest Dancers since 2016 – present

He has been a part of the Gitwinksihlkw Fire Department since 1998 as the current Captain for the Department and has received training from the Justice Institute of BC in Exterior Attack Operations and Vehicle Extrication. Furthermore, Anthony is a Licensed Emergency Medical Responder and is the lead Medic for the Nisga’a Emergency Medical Transport that services the Nisga’a Villages of Gitwinksihlkw and Gitlaxt’aamiks.

Working diligently with other members of his department, they have worked to develop a strong junior firefighter training program since 2013 and an annual summer Future Hero’s boot camp since 2014, instilling the traditions and mindset of a firefighter into the youth of Nisga’a Nation and its four communities. As well as serving in his fire department, Anthony also serves in many other non-profit organizations in areas of Cultural dancing as the Director for the Gitwinksihlkw Four Crest Dancers and the Principal Cornet Player for Gitwinksihlkw Salvation Army Brass Band and Majagaleehl Nisga’a Concert Band. He also is the Bandmaster for the Gitwinksihlkw Salvation Army Junior Brass Band and Faculty Director at the Salvation Army’s Camp Mountainview Performing Arts Summer Camp since 2014 to the present.