Project Team

Sarah Burch - Executive Director, Waterloo Climate Institute; Professor, Geography and Environmental Management; Canada Research Chair (On Leave) - is an expert in transformative responses to climate change at the community scale, innovative strategies for making progress on sustainability, and the unique contributions that small businesses can make to this solving this complex challenge.

Michèle Martin is the training program specialist at the Waterloo Climate Institute. Her role is to support university-wide climate change educational programming, as well as to advance and coordinate external professional development and training opportunities. Michele has over thirty years' experience in sustainability and climate change education and capacity building in Canada and internationally and holds a PhD in Environmental Studies from York University. 

Email: michelep.martin@uwaterloo.ca

Jerika Sanderson is a graduate research assistant at the Waterloo Climate Institute supporting the “Climate Change Education” project. Jerika is a PhD candidate in the Department of English Language and Literature, where her research is informed by her interdisciplinary background in English and biological sciences. She is especially interested in interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to teaching, and she has instructed the course Communication in the Sciences and co-instructed the Wicked Problem of Climate Change course.