Grand Chief Stewart Phillip: Prioritizing Organ Donation & Transplantation for Indigenous People

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip is the President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC), a position he has served for the past 26 years after being reelected in 2022. Prior to his tenure as President of UBCIC, he served his community as Chief of the Penticton Indian Band (PIB) for 16 years, in addition to previously serving as an elected Band Councillor for a 10-year period.
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip has long since committed to strengthening and protecting the interests, title and rights of First Nations people and communities. He has taken a lifelong role in working tirelessly to ensure that the actions of all levels of government are directed by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls 2S+ Calls for Justice.
In February 2021, he received a kidney transplant from a living donor, his daughter.