Calvin Helin
Calvin Helin is a bestselling author, international speaker, entrepreneur, lawyer, and activist for self-reliance.
Helin's first book, the best-selling Dances with Dependency: Out of Poverty through Self-Reliance, provided a blueprint to help Native American populations break free from the welfare trap of government dependence. During his extensive research for Dances with Dependency, Helin learned that the corrosive effects of economic dependency are not limited to the poor, but apply to other social classes, businesses and governments.
Helins most recent book, The Economic Dependency Trap, offers crucial and timely strategies to eliminate welfare dependency, advocating self-reliance, individual responsibility, policy reform and cultural awareness to reframe debilitating mindsets across social, political and class lines.
A leading authority on fiscal independence, Helin has been widely featured by national newspapers, radio and television addressing rising poverty and unemployment rates among Native American populations. He has hundreds of appearances as a speaker and expert source on destitution in the Native American community, which is said to rival conditions in third world countries.
Helin currently serves as president and CEO of Eagle Group of Companies, LLC, president of the Native Investment and Trade Association, and director of the Vancouver Board of Trade, GeoScience BC, and the Canada-China Resource Development Foundation. He has received numerous national distinctions as an entrepreneur, social activist and community leader.
Helin's first book, the best-selling Dances with Dependency: Out of Poverty through Self-Reliance, provided a blueprint to help Native American populations break free from the welfare trap of government dependence. During his extensive research for Dances with Dependency, Helin learned that the corrosive effects of economic dependency are not limited to the poor, but apply to other social classes, businesses and governments.
Helins most recent book, The Economic Dependency Trap, offers crucial and timely strategies to eliminate welfare dependency, advocating self-reliance, individual responsibility, policy reform and cultural awareness to reframe debilitating mindsets across social, political and class lines.
A leading authority on fiscal independence, Helin has been widely featured by national newspapers, radio and television addressing rising poverty and unemployment rates among Native American populations. He has hundreds of appearances as a speaker and expert source on destitution in the Native American community, which is said to rival conditions in third world countries.
Helin currently serves as president and CEO of Eagle Group of Companies, LLC, president of the Native Investment and Trade Association, and director of the Vancouver Board of Trade, GeoScience BC, and the Canada-China Resource Development Foundation. He has received numerous national distinctions as an entrepreneur, social activist and community leader.