Staff

Elena Christy

Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator (on leave)

Elena Christy (she/her) supports Partners for Action's stakeholder engagement, communications, and knowledge mobilization. With a background in community and international development, community-based research, and design, Elena is particularly interested in how transdisciplinary engagement can lead to the innovative solutions needed to address some of the world’s most pressing issues and bring about social change. 

echristy@uwaterloo.ca
Office: evolv1
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Sharmalene Mendis-Millard (she/her) is a mixed-methods geographer whose research focused on adaptive capacity in Canadian UNESCO Biosphere Reserves and who worked at Reep Green Solutions to engage people on stormwater management. Sharmalene has worked for several interdisciplinary research centres that aim to advance community well-being and social justice through community partnerships, program evaluations, and learning opportunities, and now focuses on equity in climate risk reduction and adaptation. 

sharmalene.mendis-millard@uwaterloo.ca
Office: evolv1
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