Kaeleigh Phillips is an environment and sustainability communications writer with a passion for animal rights. A former staff writer for the Women’s Post, Kaeleigh is now the Communications and Outreach Director for Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment.

Troy Vettese is a doctoral student at New York University, where he is writing a dissertation on the history of the tar sands industry.

Katharine Zywert’s doctoral research focuses on health in the Anthropocene, with fieldwork investigating social innovations that have the potential to build resilient health systems for an era of constrained economic growth and social-ecological instability. Katharine holds a Master’s in Medical Anthropology from the University of Oxford and a Graduate Diploma […]

Brett Dolter is an ecological economist specializing in climate and energy policy research. He is the vice president of Research and Education for the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics and is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Ottawa’s Institute of Environment.

Jeroen van den Bergh is ICREA Research Professor in the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. In addition, he is an honorary professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at VU University Amsterdam (VUA) in the Netherlands. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Environmental Innovation […]

Neale Adams is a retired newspaper and television journalist, and communications officer for a religious organization. He is vice president of the Suzuki Elders.

Stacey Danckert is a former candidate and Policy Coordinator for the provincial Green Party, co-director of the Waterloo Region Environment Network, and chair of the Kitchener Environmental Advisory Committee. She holds her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience.

Nicole McCallum (@NikkiJade) is a lover of community and collaboration, as well as a social entrepreneur, author and educator at the University of Guelph and Wilfrid Laurier University. McCallum works with non-profit organizations and social enterprises to help them establish initiatives in a way that is financially, socially and environmentally […]

As Principal of Fleming College’s Frost Campus and Dean of SENRS, Linda Skilton, now retired, played a lead role in how the school’s programs were shaped and delivered. Dr. Skilton completed her Master of Arts in Education from Central Michigan University and completed her PhD in higher education from OISE […]

Ainsley Munro is a Katimavik alumna who lived in Quesnel, British Columbia, and Montreal, Quebec, during her six months in the program in 2012.