Jeff Horvath, Vice-Principal, Siksika Nation High School
Jeff Horvath is a member of the Ojibways of Onigaming in northwestern Ontario and has called Alberta home for most of his life. An educator since 1998, he has spent his career in public and First Nations school systems, with a focus on Indigenous education and leadership.
Jeff is Vice-Principal of Siksika Nation High School with the Siksika Board of Education. Before joining Siksika, he was principal of Tsuut’ina Nation High School and then principal of Morley Community School in Stoney Nakoda Nation. He has also worked as a Learning Specialist with the Indigenous Learning Branch. In 2022, he received the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal (Alberta) in recognition of his years as a dedicated educator.
Jeff is a doctoral candidate in Educational Leadership at the University of Calgary.
His commitment to young people extends to the outdoors. A former Outward Bound instructor who led multi-week mountain and lake expeditions, Jeff served on the Board of Directors of Outward Bound Canada from 2012 to 2019 and rejoined the board in 2021. He helped create SAGE, an Outward Bound program for Indigenous students from Stoney Nakoda Nation, and is an Assistant Hiking Guide with the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides.