Elysa Darling

Background

About Elysa Darling

Elysa Darling has earned a reputation for tenacity in pursuing organizations’ strategic communications and government relations goals. Elysa joins Prairie Sky after working with the Digital Supercluster, where she led corporate communications, government relations, global public relations, and member engagement. She successfully championed Digital’s efforts to obtain a re-investment of $750 million from the Government of Canada in Budget 2022 for the Global Innovation Cluster Program. Elysa is passionate about cultivating productive government relationships at both the federal and provincial level. She knows how to create attention-grabbing messaging that resonate with public, private, and government stakeholders, and has deep experience overseeing media outreach and engagement initiatives – both online and conventional. Elysa has extensive experience working with Indigenous clients, as well as enterprise and SME companies in the tech sector. Elysa is a skilled lawyer who previously practiced in Indigenous corporate law prior to teaching at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Law, where she co-created an Indigenous Business Law course on corporate commercial law and its application on reserve lands. When Elysa isn’t chasing after her daughter and two dogs, she enjoys watching and reading horror, getting out in the mountains with her husband, or a great workout with friends.