Teara Fraser
Canadian aviator (born 1971)
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Teara Fraser (born 1971) is a Canadian aviator and the founder and CEO of Iskwew Air.
Biography
Career
Fraser became a certified commercial pilot in 2002[4] after experiencing her first small aircraft flight in October 2001.[4]
Fraser founded an aerial survey company in 2010, and sold the company six years later.[4] She returned to entrepreneurship in 2019[4] with the founding of Iskwew Air, a small airline that offers charter service to remote Indigenous communities in British Columbia, Canada. She chose the name Iskwew - which means "woman" in her ancestral Cree language - in celebration of her Indigenous heritage and of the work of women to fight for gender equality.[4][5]
In addition to her experience as an aviator and entrepreneur, Fraser founded the Aviation Leadership Foundation, sits on the board of directors of the British Columbia Aviation Council, is a faculty member at Royal Roads University, and was a founder of the Raven Institute and the Lift Collective.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Fraser and Iskwew Air began supplying essential goods to remote Indigenous communities, such as Alert Bay, that were impacted by the pandemic.[6]
Fraser's story will be included in the DC Comics graphic novel Wonderful Women of History. The story, written by Traci Sorell and illustrated by Natasha Donovan,[7] is set to be published in September 2021.[8]