Elena Adasheva-Klein
PhD candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at Yale University, USA
Elena Adasheva-Klein is a PhD candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at Yale University. Her doctoral research explores human-environment relations and urban infrastructure in the Russian Arctic. Elena’s interests also include Arctic science diplomacy and governance. Her work is supported by the National Science Foundation and the American Councils for International Education. Elena is committed to fostering intercultural communication and promoting collaborations between international actors in the Arctic.
Jhoan P. Chávez Suazo
MSc Candidate in Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Jhoan Chávez is an Environmental Engineer studying Natural Resources and Environmental Studies MSc at the University of Northern British Columbia in Canada. Her research focuses on agricultural waste management and pyrolysis. She worked in sustainability, climate change adaptability and mitigation, and environmental compliance for over eight years. After her undergraduate, she researched Dry Forests Carbon Capture and Storage in Northern Peru. She worked in in-situ plant domestication and management in the Peruvian highlands, agrochemical regulation & compliance, advertising market planning/sustainability, and bioenergy. She participates in volunteer organizations like the GAV-UNIR UNALM, contributing as an assessor, in Join for the Planet as a director, in the Canadian Red Cross as an emergency responder, and in Jack.org, advocating for mental health.
Abigale Coad
Masters of Arts (Geography), Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
Abigale is a mixed Algonquin-Settler from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. She grew up as an uninvited visitor on the lands of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation and North Slave Metis and currently resides on the traditional territory of the Beothuk and the Mi’kmaq peoples. Her undergraduate thesis examined Indigenous youth resistance movements in the context of the northern mixed economy and the settler state. After working for the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation (Government of the Northwest Territories) for two years, she decided to return to complete a master’s project to examine the systematic barriers to Indigenous governments in the Northwest Territories pursuing self-determination of housing. This work hopes to provide, in part, a model for other Indigenous and settler governments looking to transition to self-governance.
Seira Duncan
PhD in Social and Cultural Encounters, University of Eastern Finland
Seira Duncan is an indigenous Eurasian doctoral researcher in the Social and Cultural Encounters programme at the University of Eastern Finland and was a fellow at the Arctic Institute and the East-West Center. More recently, she started her fellowships at the International Arctic Science Committee and the European Centre for Minority Issues and completed her stays as a Visiting PhD student at the University of Tromsø and Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland).
Ann Duong
PhD Candidate in Natural Resources and Environmental Science
Ann is currently pursuing a PhD program in Natural Resources and Environmental Science while also being a full-time employee at Northern Analytical Lab Services, an environmental innovations and solutions centre in Northern BC. As the Youth Director of the Fraser Basin Council, a charitable non-profit organization committed to sustainability, she takes an active role and serves as the Chair of their youth advisory committee. Additionally, she is one of the co-founders of a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting sustainable communities and implementing climate solutions. Ann’s interests revolve around green technologies, nature-based solutions, and sustainability.
Sara Fusco
PhD candidate in Environmental Law and Indigenous Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Lapland, Finland
Sara is a PhD candidate at the University of Lapland. Her research focuses on the concept of Environmental Justice in the Arctic Constitutions from the Indigenous Rights perspective. She currently lectures in Comparative Law and Human Rights at the Faculty of Law of the University of Akureyri, where she graduated in Polar Law in 2019. She holds an MA in Comparative Law from the University of Florence, and she has recently completed a Diploma in Human Security and Sustainability from the Institute of International Political sciences (ISPI). She is also a Special Editor for the Icelandic E-Journal of Nordic and Mediterranean Studies.
Roisin Kennelly
PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Oxford, England, UK
Róisín is an environmental anthropologist with a background in policy and community work in Scotland. She is currently undertaking doctoral studies at the University of Oxford. Her DPhil work explores human dimensions of climate change and transitions to sustainability by engaging with critical intersections of adaptation, infrastructure and technology, and environment in the Faroe Islands. This research explores processes of climate change adaptation in the Faroese context, its impact on environmental interactions and constructions of human-environmental contexts, and their implications for adaptation in similar remote communities. Her thesis aims to support locally informed climate policy and is particularly concerned with questions of power, resistance, and interrupted experience.
Kaylia Little
PhD Candidate in Sustainability Management, University of Waterloo, Canada
Kaylia Little (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in Sustainability Management; her background is in international development and Indigenous studies. After completing her Master of Development Practice in 2016, she returned to the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development at the University of Waterloo to pursue her doctoral studies. Her current research looks at the introduction of diesel energy to Iqaluit, Nunavut and is titled “Colonial Diesel Structures: Energy Transitions in an Arctic community”. Outside of her academics, Kaylia has worked as an independent researcher and as a policy analyst in both provincial and territorial policy spaces across Canada.
Rosie Rowe
PhD Candidate in Law, Curtin University, Australia
Rosie is a business and human rights specialist with 5 years of experience working with companies and private sector initiatives on human rights and sustainability issues, in particular across the mining and renewable energy sectors. She completed her Masters in International Law at the University of Bristol, specialising in aspects of human rights and environmental law, and graduated top of her class. She is currently pursuing doctoral research at Curtin University in Perth, which focuses on just transitions and advancing business respect for human rights in the deployment of wind and solar projects in Western Australia.
Anna Soer
PhD candidate in Political Science, University of Ottawa, Canada
Anna’s research focuses on the (gendered) economic and political impacts of the development of renewable energy infrastructures in Canada (Sanikiluaq) and Norway (Øyfjellet). Previously to starting her PhD, Anna studied in Europe. She holds an MSc in Human Geography from Radboud University (Netherlands) – with a thesis on well-being in Nunavut. She obtained her Bachelor’s in English literature and history from the Université Bordeaux Montaigne (France). Due to her background in both language studies and geography, she pays particular attention to how language is used within governance structures to inform visions and epistemologies and how socio-political dynamics are thereby formed.
Jacqueline Tedaldi
PhD candidate at the Centre of Law, Sustainability and Justice, SDU – University of Southern Denmark
Jacqueline is a specialist within the field of business and human rights and has experience providing strategic support to companies, international financial institutions and organizations in understanding and aligning with human rights and other international standards. She has also worked with researching and developing guidance on human rights impact assessments and implementation in practice.
Maria Wilke
PhD Candidate at the Agricultural University of Iceland
Maria Wilke is a doctoral candidate at the Agricultural University of Iceland, investigating public participation in marine spatial planning. Her research interests lie in human-nature connections, in particular, exploring peoples’ relationship to the sea. Her previous research focussed on marine environmental education, coastal communities and community engagement, ocean literacy, nature-based solutions and bioregionalism. At the Stefansson Arctic Institute, Maria works on spatial justice in coastal and marine spaces. Maria is co-chairing the Icelandic chapter of APECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists) and works in the communications team of MarSocSci (the Marine Social Science Network).
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