About Jeff Kenny What is it about planning that you love? The permanence of the work as it relates to community building is what I enjoy most about planning. We spend years developing plans and ferrying them through incremental development approval processes which is at the best of times, tedious and frustrating. We spend years
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About James Marzotto In his grade 12 World Issues class, James Marzotto was inspired by his teacher to not only discuss global problems but to, take action. As a result, he decided to research post-secondary opportunities that would provide him with just that. During his search, Marzotto stumbled across the Bachelor in Environmental Studies program
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About Azam Khatam Azam is a Research Affiliate at the City Institute and an Instructor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies York University. She worked as a professional urban planner for fifteen years before she started her doctoral program. She received her PhD in June 2016 studying the convergence of developmentalism, worlding
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About Edith Steiner Since completing her doctorate, Edie Steiner has presented her research and media at conferences including How Class Works at the Centre for Study of Working Class Life, SUNY Stony Brook, 2016, and at Rust/Recovery: Works of Resistance, the 2017 conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Wayne
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About Sophia Sestito Before Sophia Sestito (BES, 2007), construction services company EllisDon did not have a go-to person to consult with for environmental management – fast-forward five years since Sophia joined the organization and an environmental department may very well be the next step. With multiple projects on-the-go – some days as many as 45
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About Pablo Bose Pablo taught during my last year of my PhD at Trent in International Development Studies and began a two-year SSHRC post-doc at the University of Vermont (UVM). In 2008, he started a tenure-track position at UVM and was granted tenure in 2015. He co-published a book with Peter Penz and Jay Drydyk
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About Jocelyn Thorpe Jocelyn Thorpe is an associate professor in women's and gender studies and history at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Her research draws from critical race, feminist, and environmental studies scholarship to examine the history and legacies of, as well as challenges to, colonialism in the Canadian context. She seeks to understand
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About Bipasha Baruah Bipasha Baruah is the Canada Research Chair in Global Women’s Issues and a tenured full professor in the Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Baruah conducts interdisciplinary research on gender, development and globalization; women and work; and social, political and economic inequality. Her research
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About Jennifer Dockstator For the last 3-1/2 years Jennifer has been working with Trent University's Department of Indigenous Studies. As a Research Associate, she has been involved in a community-driven project, funded by CIHR, with Eabametoong First Nation in northern Ontario. The program aimed to contribute toward improving community health and well-being through initiatives prioritized
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About Brett Dolter Brett Dolter is an ecological economist specializing in climate and energy policy research. He has published in journals such as Energy Policy and Ecological Economics. Brett completed his PhD degree at York University where his research focused on pathways for greening the Saskatchewan grid. He holds a Masters in Economics from the
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