Sept 2024 – present
Kt is an ethnobiologist with experience in community-based participatory research, coproduction of knowledge and mixing methods and methodologies from Indigenous ways of knowing and social science. Kt has an MA in interdisciplinary studies from Royal Roads University where her thesis explored Indigenous Knowledge of Human-polar Bear Coexistence in Churchill, Manitoba using storytelling and arts-based podcast outputs. Kt worked for over 12 years for Polar Bears International developing and conducting field research and programs, documenting fieldwork, overseeing climate and conservation communications, leading remote teams, and building and maintaining relationships in Northern communities. Kt grew up on the traditional lands of the Apsaalooké, Salish Kootenai, Blackfoot, Crow and Cheyenne in present-day Bozeman, Montana, where she spent her youth working as an adventure photographer, filmmaker and mountain guide. Kt most recently finds joy in exploring frozen high mountain lakes on backcountry ice skates and having solo living room dance parties in her vanilla leopard overalls.
