Bio

Dana is a postdoctoral research fellow at IRES in the LEAP Lab. Her work supports the Indigenous-led, multi-institutional All our Chemical Relations: Learning from the Lands, Upholding Indigenous Knowledges project, which aims to transform approaches to environmental risk, policy, and governance by centering northern Indigenous knowledges and experiences. Her previous community-engaged research has examined how to scale out agroecology across Latin America, and how Indigenous-led conservation initiatives (such as IPCAs) can enhance Indigenous food sovereignty. She also brings practitioner experience from the NGO sector, where she has worked to support young peoples’ environmental rights and climate justice advocacy. She holds a PhD from IRES at UBC.