Archives: Author

Rachel Plotkin

Rachel Plotkin is the Ontario Science Projects Manager at the David Suzuki Foundation, a charitable organization that seeks to find solutions to create a sustainable Canada through science-based research, education and policy work.

Deborah Curran

Deborah Curran, a land-use lawyer, is a program director/senior instructor with the University of Victoria’s Environmental Law Centre and Faculty of Law.

Janet Sumner

Janet Sumner is a CBFA veteran and executive director at CPAWS Wildlands League. 

Kevin McElvaney

Kevin McElvaney is a self-described “guy with a camera” based in Hamburg, Germany. You can see more of his work at www.derkevin.com.

Jesse Bauman

Jesse grew up on a farm near Stratford, completed an MA in Political Science/Philosophy at McGill last spring, and since then has worked for K-W’s Emergency Food Hamper program. Jesse has also recently started writing original articles for the blog, House of Friendship.

Howard Ramos

Howard Ramos

Howard Ramos is a political sociologist at Dalhousie University who investigates the relationships among social movements and NGO advocacy and media coverage. 

Mark Stoddart

Mark C.J. Stoddart

Mark C.J. Stoddart is an associate professor of Sociology at Memorial University of Nfld. He received the 2014 Early Investigator Award from the Canadian Sociological Association. 

Taysha Palmer

Taysha Palmer has served in both the private and public spheres, for not-for-profit organizations and science/research teams. She focuses on knowledge transfer and facilitating multi-disciplinary teams.

Fikret Berkes

Fikret Berkes

Fikret Berkes is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Community-Based Resource Management, and winner of the 2014 Sustainability Science Award of the Ecological Society of America.

Ken Oakes

Ken Oakes

Ken Oakes is a researcher at the Verschuren Centre at Cape Breton University and holds an Industrial Research Chair in Environmental Remediation.