Sept 2024 – present
I am so thankful to be pursuing a Master of Arts in Geography with a Specialization in Climate Change at Carleton University under the supervision of Dr. Nguyen. After graduating from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Physical and Health Education and Bachelor of Education in 2018 I attended a Natural Resource Studies Semester through the Haida Gwaii Higher Education Society and the University of British Columbia in 2019. I taught in schools across Ontario before deciding to pursue my masters. As a settler on this land, I am passionate about working to build better relationships with Indigenous nations that have lived here for time immemorial and working together to find solutions to climate change. My research is part of the Transformative Risk Assessment and Forest Resilience Using Genomic Tools for the Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak project taking place in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. I am working to understand communication barriers Indigenous communities face in land stewardship, specifically forestry, and working to find new and innovative solutions in and out of existing structures to improve knowledge exchange. I am happy to be apart of a lab that combines my passions for social justice, environmentalism and love of plants!
