Profiles

Sharmalene Mendis-Millard (she/her) is a mixed-methods geographer who is passionate about non-profits and harnessing the resources of academia for community benefit. She 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 helped develop the pilot RAIN program to engage communities in stormwater management at Reep Green Solutions  Sharmalene now focuses on multi-hazard resilient retrofits, and equity in climate risk reduction and adaptation. 

sharmalene.mendis-millard@uwaterloo.ca
Office: evolv1
Sharmalene's profile and LinkedIn

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
Elena's profile and LinkedIn

Kalindi Shah (she/her) graduated with a Masters of Climate Change (MCC) from the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo in the Fall 2022. She supports the Director, Manager of Research Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator in creating research project documentation, conducting targeted literature reviews and in all other logistical components of research.

kn3shah@uwaterloo.ca
Kalindi's profile and LinkedIn

p4a.info@uwaterloo.ca
Location: evolv1