FOUNDER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Melina is Lubicon Cree and was born in her community of Little Buffalo in Northern Alberta. She has worked on social, environmental and climate justice issues for the past 20 years.

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Serena (she/her) is a Cayuga Wolf Clan Panamanian woman from the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. Serena is a community-based researcher, grassroots organizer, and environmental advocate.

COMMUNICATIONS LEAD

Waabshkigan Shane is a Two-Spirit Ojibwe & Potawatomi Anishinaabenini from Beausoleil First Nation. Shane is a community builder and a Shkaabewis for his people.

CURRICULUM DEVELOPER

Farron (she/they) is a Japanese-Canadian settler who lives on the unceded, unsurrendered lands and waters of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaɬ, and K'ómoks First Nations.

DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Ximena (she/her) is a first-generation Mexican settler born in Mexico City from mixed and largely unknown ancestry. She grew up and currently lives on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Peoples.

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

Edna Joyce was born in Mexico City and currently resides in Treaty 13, Toronto. She has over five years of experience providing high-level support to senior executives and operational needs.

PROGRAM ASSISTANT

Lindsay Beaulieu is a proud Cree/Métis woman currently living in Red Deer, Alberta (Wâwâskêsiw sîpiy), with her matriarchal roots in Buffalo Narrows, Saskatchewan (Moshtosh Owâpâsihk), Canoe Lake Cree Nation (Nêhiyaw Opâsihk), and the Red River Métis Nation.

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is a doctoral candidate in Education at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. His research centres on assessment and assessment practices in higher education and on Indigenous education, advocating for the integration of Indigenous knowledge systems, epistemologies, and assessment practices into mainstream educational contexts. As an Indigenous person and scholar from Ghana, Stanislaus advocates for evidence-based approaches to local and global challenges that honor and balance both Western and Indigenous knowledge systems. His research seeks to address local and global challenges through the promotion of culturally responsive, accessible and inclusive educational practices.

(they/she) is a Staff Research Scholar in Indigenous Science, Technology and Environment at the Technoscience Research Unit. Erin is an Alberta-raised Métis, a fisher, mixed-media artist and scholar.  They are a citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation and a registered Métis harvester. With a background in environmental studies, Erin's research interests include climate justice, Indigenous harvesting practices, fishing, arts-based methodologies, feminist and queer theories, and politicized healing and embodiment. Their arts practice currently focuses on fish scale art - a land-based arts practice that includes harvesting fish, processing and cleaning the scales, as well as the vertebrae and bones to create intricate florals.

Erin is also a somatic practitioner and educator in climate and social justice movement spaces and believes in the body as a place for transformation towards what we care about. They work within the relational tissues of movement spaces and organizations to consider the roles of healing, embodiment, and practices of conflict transformation. Erin is trained in Somatic Experiencing®, a body-based healing approach to working with trauma, that follows the felt sensations and stories of the body.