Location: Environment 3 (fourth floor)
Email: sig.office@uwaterloo.ca
Phone: 519-888-4490
Silvia Dorado
Visiting scholar
Silvia Dorado is an associate professor of Management at the University of Rhode Island and visiting professor at the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation (WISIR) and the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) at the University of Waterloo.
Darcy Riddell
Director of strategic learning at the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation
Darcy Riddell has worked to change systems as an environmental activist, strategist, consultant, and educator for almost 20 years.
Stephen Quilley
Associate director
Stephen Quilley is the Associate director of the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience as well as an associate professor of the School of Environment, Resource and Sustainability in the Department of Environment at the University of Waterloo.
Visit Dr. Quilley's blog: Navigators of the Anthropocene
Dan McCarthy
Director
Dan McCarthy is the Director of the Waterloo Institute of Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR), and the Associate Director, Undergraduate Studies, as well as an assistant professor in the School of Environment, Resource and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo.
Kaitlyn Rathwell
Researcher
Kaitlyn Rathwell is an environmental change scholar and practicing performance artist.
Erin Alexiuk
Research associate, PhD student
Erin has an academic background in social-ecological resilience, critical indigenist methodologies, and social innovation. Through her PhD research, Erin aims to explore links between transformative learning theory and emerging literature on unsettling settler colonial society as a way to foster greater equity and sustainability in Canadian resource planning and management.
Melanie Goodchild
Senior indigenous research fellow and associate
Melanie Goodchild, Senior Indigenous Research Fellow and Ambassador, Suncor Fellow, The Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR)
Sean Geobey
Director of academic programs
Sean Geobey is the Director of academic programs for the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience as well as an Assistant Professor in the
Melanie Chaplier
Post doctoral fellow
Melanie Chaplier is a cultural anthropologist from Belgium who just joined WISIR as a postdoctoral Research Fellow. She previously earned her PhD at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve and was a Fulbright Fellow at Dartmouth College in 2015-2016.
Ola Tjornbo
Archipelago consultants
Ola Tjornbo's research interests are primarily focused on social innovation, social-ecological transformation, governance and complexity, and social media and virtual social networks.
Katharine McGowan
Assistant professor, Mount Royal University
Lead researcher on the Social Prosperity Wood Buffalo project, Katharine has advanced work on Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience's (WISIR) developing social innovation theory based on historical case studies.
Nino Antadze
Visiting assistant professor of Environmental Studies at Bucknell University
Nino is a post-doctoral fellow with the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED). Read about her current work on “Cross-sector alliances to solve complex environmental issues.”
Kirsten Robinson
Researcher
Lead researcher on the Social Innovation Simulation project at Social Innovation Generation (SiG) / Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR), Kirsten is doing a PhD in systems design engineering.
Nina Ripley
Office coordinator
Nina has been with The Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR) since 2011. Her previous experience is a combination of administrative/management and customer service in the wellness and beauty industry.
Frances Westley
The J.W. McConnell chair in social innovation
Frances Westley joined the University of Waterloo as the J.W. McConnell Chair in social innovation in July 2007. In this capacity she is one of the principle leads in a Canada wide initiative in social innovation, Social Innovation Generation (SiG) a cross sectoral partnership to build capacity for social innovation in Canada funded by the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, University of Waterloo and the Ontario government.
Michele-Lee Moore
Adjunct professor
Michele-Lee Moore is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria where she leads the Water, Innovation, and Global Governance lab based at the Centre for Global Studies. Michele-Lee is one of the faculty responsible delivering the Rockefeller Global Fellowship Program, and has previously helped deliver modules for the Graduate Diploma on Social Innovation.
She is a former McConnell Fellow in Social Innovation at Social Innovation Generation SiG@Waterloo, where she led a number of projects that examined the role of networks, social finance, and public policy in supporting social innovation.