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Executive Committee

Julia Christensen

Project Director and Co-lead: Governance, Policy and Self-Determination focus area

Julia Christensen is an Associate Professor in Geography and Planning at Queen's University.


Shelagh McCartney

Co-lead: Housing, Community Design and the Built Environment focus area

Shelagh McCartney is Director of +city lab and Together Design Lab, and an Associate Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University in the School of Urban and Regional Planning.


Rebecca Schiff

Co-lead: Supportive Housing Programs and Services focus area

Rebecca Schiff is Dean of the Faculty of Human and Health Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia.


James Caesar

James Caesar is Lead Innovator representing the K’asho Got’ine Housing Society (KGHS) located in Rádeyįlį Kǫ́ (Fort Good Hope), in the Sahtú Region of the Northwest Territories.


Anne Headrick

Co-lead: Housing, Community Design and the Built Environment focus area


Mylène Riva

Co-lead: Health Synthesis Stream focus area

Mylène Riva is a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Housing, Community and Health, and cross-appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Health and Social Policy and the Department of Geography at McGill University.


Ouri Scott

Ouri Scott is a Tlicho Dene architect originally from the Northwest Territories.


Arthur Tobac

Co-Lead: Governance, Policy and Self-Determination focus area

Arthur Tobac is a Director of the Ka’sho Got’ine Housing Society and is also a member of the Fort Good Hope Council.


Participants

Lucy Kuptana

Co-lead: Governance, Policy and Self-Determination focus area


Rebecca Alty

Rebecca is the Mayor of the city of Yellowknife, NWT.


Trevor Bell

Trevor Bell is a geographer and University Research Professor (Memorial University of Newfoundland) whose current work focuses on climate change adaptations.


Colin R. Bonnycastle

Colin R. Bonnycastle has played an active role in community-based research in areas of domestic violence, homelessness, Northern economy and water rights in First Nations.


Marleny M. Bonnycastle

Marleny M. Bonnycastle is an Associate Professor at the University of Manitoba, Faculty of Social Work in Winnipeg.


Lori Chambers

Lori Chambers is a Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at Lakehead University.


Kenneth Coates

Kenneth Coates is Tier I Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan campus.


Jackie Compton Hobbs

Jackie Compton Hobbs is employed with Government of Newfoundland & Labrador with the Department of Justice, and has been advocating for many years to end homelessness.


Ashlee Consolo

Ashlee Cunsolo, PhD, is a health geographer and the Director of the Labrador Institute of Memorial University.


Lee Anne Deegan

Lee Anne is currently living in Thompson, Manitoba where she teaches in the Northern Social Work Program with University of Manitoba.


Arlene Hache

Arlene Hache currently sits as a member of the National Poverty Council.


Greg Halseth

Greg Halseth is a Professor in the Geography Program at UNBC, where he is also the Canada Research Chair in Rural and Small Town Studies.


Susane Havelka

Susane Havelka’s research interests lie at the intersection of housing, community engagement and user-generated cold-climate building techniques


Travis Hay

Travis Hay is a Canadian historian and community organizer from Thunder Bay, Ontario, and teaches as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Lakehead University.


Carin Holroyd

Dr. Carin Holroyd is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan and President of the Japan Studies Association of Canada.


Carol Kauppi

Carol Kauppi, PhD is the Director of the Centre for Research in Social Justice and Policy. She is also a professor in the School of Social Work at Laurentian University and she served as the MSW Program Coordinator for several years.


Anna Kirbyson

For the past fifteen years, Anna has supported government agencies, non-profit organizations and Indigenous communities to design, implement and evaluate projects in community-based program design and evaluation.


Bonnie Krysowaty

Bonnie Krysowaty is a Social Researcher and Planner for the Lakehead Social Planning Council.


Linda Larcombe

L. Larcombe is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine, Medical Microbiology, Community Health Sciences and Adjunct with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba.


Stacey Fritz

Stacey Fritz, Phd, is a Cultural Anthropologist with the Cold Climate Housing Research Center and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Project, based in Fairbanks, Alaska.


Pertice Moffitt

Dr. Pertice Moffitt is Manager/Instructor, Health Research Programs, Aurora Research Institute, Aurora College.


Pamela Orr

Dr. Pamela Orr is a Professor of Internal Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Medical Microbiology and Community Health at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg.


Erin Shea

Co-lead: Supportive Housing Programs and Services focus area

Erin Shea is Manager of Homelessness and Community Planning for the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation.


Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott

Dr. Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott is an Associate Professor of sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland.


Jeanette Waegemakers Schiff

Dr. Jeanette Waegemakers Schiff is a full Professor in the Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary.


Eric Weissman

Eric Weissman is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Department of Social Science at the University of New Brunswick.


Graduate Students

Morgen Bertheussen

Graduate Research Assistant

Morgen is an incoming PhD student at McGill University. Her interests broadly revolve around Indigenous conceptualizations of health and well-being, and on climate change adaptation at a local scale.


Jenine Otto

Masters student

Jenine is a graduate student at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. She engages with visual storytelling in her research on housing and climate change in the North. 


Karine Perreault

PhD Candidate

Karine is a PhD Candidate in Public Health at Université de Montréal. Her research interests broadly include social determinants of health, health promotion, population health intervention research, and Indigenous health.


Alycia Benson

Graduate Research Assistant

Alycia is a doctoral student studying in the Health Sciences Department at Lakehead University. She is a graduate assistant and graduate researcher engaged in numerous projects.


Aimée Pugsley

Graduate Research Assistant

Aimée is a graduate student in geography at Memorial University and a Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Julia Christensen and the Governance, Policy and Self-Determination research direction.


Ashley Wilkinson

Research Coordinator

Ashley is a PhD Candidate in Health Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) and Research Coordinator for Dr. Rebecca Schiff.


Christina Goldhar

Project Coordinator

Christina is a PhD Candidate in Geography and Planning at Queen's University and the Project Coordinator of At Home in the North.