Bio

Carina Isbell is a PhD student in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability under the supervision of Dr. Hannah Wittman and Dr. Juliet Lu. She holds an MS in Community Development and Applied Economics from the University of Vermont. Her prior work has focused on seed saving and sharing networks, gaps and opportunities for conservation technical assistance in the US, and socio-economic benefits associated with agricultural diversification. At UBC, her PhD project concentrates on framing processes—how actors negotiate, and mobilize on, ideas and meanings—and how these processes shape priorities, collaboration, and outcomes in agri-food transformation agendas across policy and advocacy spheres. She is particularly interested in the transformative spectrum of agroforestry practices and adoption discrepancies across the US, Canada and Europe.