lI am a critical and interdisciplinary environmental social scientist and Assistant Professor of Community Food Systems at the Trent School of the Environment (TSE). Previously, I was the Acting Director at the Food and Agriculture Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley. My PhD is from UBC's Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, and have a BA(hons) and MA in Sociology from the University of Manitoba where I used to teach courses related to social inequality and power.

‼️ Prospective graduate students‼️ I will be recruiting for the Towards Equitable Sustainability Transitions (“TEST”) Lab, focused on community-based Just Sustainabilities research.  We’re workshopping a ‘Lab Handbook’ and will release it (or at least part of it) soon.

For more info, please get in touch.

Recent Work

Envisioning prairie agroecology: Farmer visual constructions of place-based ecological agriculture in Canada

with Jessie MacInnis, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, and Stuart Oke. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene.

https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2023.00054

Agrarian After Dark: Conversation and Connection with Ecological Producers.

Wednesday, January 31. Winnipeg Manitoba.

Sites, stakes, and scales: radical relationalism and the shifting nature of food sovereignty mobilization

with Hannah Wittman. Globalizations. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2023.2171623

Can (and should) we remove animals from our food system?

One pressing question, multiple expert perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2023.2171623

Intergenerational Knowledge Networks to Support Youth Engagement in Sustainable Food Systems

Mariaelena Huambachano, Indika Arulingam, Evan Bowness, Anna Korzenszky, Catherine Mungai, Paola Termine and Hannah Wittman. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.867344

 

Interview with Jessie MacInnis

to talk about the HLPE Youth report from the perspective of young farmers.

Beyond Inclusion: Deepening Responsibility for Racial Justice and Decolonization in Higher Education

August 26 2022

Inclusive cellular agriculture engagement

New Harvest Conference to confront the “elephant in the room”for the emerging cellular agriculture industry.

Canadian Association of Food Studies

Cellular agriculture refers to a suite of technologies and techniques for using cell cultures and advanced fermentation instead of live animals (e.g., livestock, poultry, fisheries) to produce food for human consumption. A critical examination of the social and political issues surrounding this emerging technology is needed, including an examination of questions around responsibility in settler colonial contexts

Canadian Association of Food Studies

a community-based collaborative visual methodology paper w. co-authors Jessie MacInnis and Annette Desmarais.

Cellular Agriculture Workshop

Over 40 participants gathered on the beautiful lands of the Katzie people to discuss the social implications of cellular agriculture.

Redistribution Webinar

This webinar features 5 experts in discussing the “5D of Redistribution” framework proposed by a Working Group that I coordinate. The 5Ds areDecolonization, Decarbonization, Diversification, Democratization, and Decommodification.

Keynote

Speaker at 8th Vancouver Urban Farming Forum

RSA 2020 XV World Congress of Rural Sociology Mini-Conference

Food and Climate Think Tank

November 4 @ 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM hosted by EMBARK SFU

https://www.embarksustainability.org/event/food-and-climate-think-tank/

Photovoice Workshop

“Photovoice for Community-Based Research and Activism” @ Wa Ni Ska Tan Alliance of Hydro Impacted Communities Ki Ta Ski Naw conference in Winnipeg MB, November 8-11 2019 (with Natalie Baird)

http://hydroimpacted.ca/2019-conference/