Location: Environment 3 (fourth floor)
Email: sig.office@uwaterloo.ca
Phone: 519-888-4490
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.
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.
Kaitlyn Rathwell
Researcher
Kaitlyn Rathwell is an environmental change scholar and practicing performance artist.
Melanie Goodchild
Senior indigenous research fellow and associate
Melanie Goodchild, moose clan, is a member of Biigtigong Nishnaabeg First Nation in Northern Ontario. She is the founder of the Turtle Island Institute, an Indigenous social innovation think & do tank (a teaching lodge). In her work, she weaves together her unique perspectives of Anishinaabe gikendaasowin (knowledge) with systems thinking/complexity theory and social innovation to address our society’s most intractable problems. Melanie believes in the teaching methods of her ancestors, in “coming to know” on the land, and so she supports initiatives that seek to connect people to ceremony, story, art, language and the land.