Dr. Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook is founding director of the new Condor and Eagle Institute for Indigenous Stewardship and Innovation and Co-steward of 7GenCities. She is a devoted auntie, visionary leader, scholar, educator, knowledge weaver and writer. Rooted in transnational Indigenous systems of knowledge, inquiry and complexity science, Tanya is deeply engaged in regenerative land relationships and biocultural stewardship, climate resilience, Indigenous and civic innovation, community wellbeing, AI stewardship, future building, and systems transformation with collaborators around the world.
Tanya’s Akawaio-Kapon and mixed ancestry from Guyana and the Netherlands, combined with transdisciplinary approaches across cultures, ecologies and geographies, inspire multifaceted perspectives in her work. She has a PhD in Environmental Studies, research and postdoctoral fellowships in social innovation and resilience, climate resilience and Indigenous health, an MA in International Development Studies, and is a trained psychotherapist. She is co-editor and co-author of Sacred Civics: Building Seven Generation Cities and the upcoming AI and Collective Stewardship in Canada; lead chapter author of A Global Research and Action Agenda on Cities and Climate Change Science, and other peer-reviewed and online publications and tools like the Embedding Resilience and Reconciliation Tool for Open Spaces.