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Annelise Geisterfer Spotlight: A Passion for Protecting the Environment
What motivated you to pursue the Master of Conservation Leadership program, and what specific areas of conservation are you focusing on? How does your current work/career fit into this?
Colton Johnstone Spotlight: Forging a Career Through Entrepreneurial Environmentalism
What motivated you to pursue the Master of Conservation Leadership program, and what specific areas of conservation are you focusing on? How does your current work/career fit into this?
Tazim Nazarali Spotlight: Taking a Holistic Perspective on the Value of Nature
What motivated you to pursue the Master of Conservation Leadership program, and what specific areas of conservation are you focusing on? How does your current work/career fit into this?
Pride Month Spotlight: Uniting Gender, Sexuality, Decolonization, Anti-Racism
Dr. Jade Crimson Rose Da Costa, born to a Goan Indian refugee from Uganda and an English-Hungarian factory worker, embodies a multifaceted identity as a gender nonbinary queer woman of color. A scholar, community organizer, knowledge mobilizer, and creative writer, Dr. Da Costa currently serves as a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Guelph. Da Costa holds a PhD in Sociology from York University, and their body of work focuses on topics related to anti-racism, decolonization, and intersectionality.
King Sam Spotlight: Looking at Conservation beyond Geopolitical Barriers
What motivated you to pursue the Master of Conservation Leadership program, and what specific areas of conservation are you focusing on? How does your current work/career fit into this?
Pursuing a master's degree has always been a personal and professional goal. As a site manager for a large scale marine protected area, I work with many experts and scientists at the national and international levels. Obtaining a master's degree in Conservation Leadership provides me with additional tools and knowledge to advance the work that I do.
Tamarra Lewis Spotlight: New Perspectives of Conservation Leadership into the Engineering Field
What motivated you to pursue the Master of Conservation Leadership program, and what specific areas of conservation are you focusing on? How does your current work/career fit into this?
Using conversations and storytelling to create understanding of environmental issues in Indigenous communities
Dr. Tad McIlwraith is a cultural anthropologist who uses storytelling as the medium for his research. Much like the ebbs and flows of a story told through the generations, McIlwraith’s current research project is about things that flow – water, wind, and air.
Settler Colonialism and Genocides Against Indigenous Peoples: Considerations from Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand
David MacDonald is a professor in the Political Science Department, where he has been since 2007. He is of Indo-Trinidadian and Scottish origin, descended from Indian girmitiya (indentured labourers) from three sugar plantations in Trinidad. He is spending his sabbatical as an honorary academic in Politics and International Relations at Waipapa Taumata Rau / University of Auckland. He is also a fellow at the Aotearoa Centre for Indigenous Peoples and the Law, and this article was written while he was a visiting fellow at Auckland Law School.