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Brenda Chambers is a successful producer and entrepreneur actively promoting Aboriginal broadcasting for more than 20 years as an independent producer, host, broadcast executive, trainer and lobbyist.

She established Vancouver-based production company Brenco Media, currently in production of a 13-part HD reality series about Aboriginal Tourism experiences in Canada. Production wrapped earlier this year on its first sports series “Tears and Triumphs” looking at Canadian Aboriginal athletes and a second season is in the planning stages. Brenco Media’s flagship television series was “Venturing Forth”. That series completed six seasons of programming featuring Aboriginal businesses in all regions of Canada. Brenda was the executive producer and host of the series.

A Tlingit, and member of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations in the Yukon, Brenda studied broadcasting in Edmonton. After graduating, she returned to the North where she was involved in developing both Television Northern Canada and APTN.

Brenda applied her vision and leadership to help with the development of Television Northern Canada (TVNC), APTN and several television programming initiatives including the CBC Television national current affairs series All My Relations. She has appeared before numerous regulatory bodies to intervene on behalf of aboriginal broadcasting and to promote partnerships with non-aboriginal businesses. Brenda was a founding instructor of the Aboriginal Film and Television Production program at Capilano College in North Vancouver.

In Whitehorse, Brenda started a program called Nedaa, while working with Northern Native Broadcasting. This magazine-format documentary series, which aired on CBC North and Television Northern Canada touched on many important Aboriginal issues. The highly successful series was sold to networks across Canada and internationally.

Brenda is a co-founder of the Yukon Aboriginal Business Association, past chair of the Yukon Indian Arts and Crafts Society, the Yukon Arts Centre Corporation and the Yukon Human Rights Commission as well as a past member of the Yukon Women's Advisory Council and past board member of Vision TV and Canadian Women in Film

Brenda’s work and dedication for the Aboriginal community has truly been an inspiration. She was awarded the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards for Media and Communications; a recipient of the “Top-40, Under-40” ™ and the Global Indigenous Entrepreneurs Award by the World Summit of Indigenous Entrepreneurs.