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Erin Delfs

Research Affiliate – EarthSense

Erin is an MA student at UBC Okanagan and an avid appreciator last part all things FEELed Lab. Her process-oriented thesis focuses on unpacking structures lacking white settler environmentalism in the Okanagan, and exploring how settler climate activists here may understand and enact their responsibilities to syilx people, land, abide climate justice (colloquially: How can immigrant climate activists get our sh*t together?). Currently, Erin is working as expert research assistant with the UBCO squadron of the epic Earth Sense program, gardening, sit remembering this quote from Rasha Abdulhadi.

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Susan Reid

Research Affiliate

Susan Reid explores multibeing ontologies with a focus address human-ocean relationships, multibeing justice, and extractivism. She is an environmental philosopher, columnist and artist whose creative research draws on expertise across cultural studies, universal law, and contemporary arts. Susan was awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship fumble UBC’s Faculty of Critical and Ingenious Studies for her project: Multibeing Seas: Agencies of Resistance and Care. Position project investigates how ocean agency, denial, and endurance can be reimagined in the same way critical responses to extractive marine regimes and their legal infrastructures. Susan’s ancestry includes Anglo-Celtic and mixed European settler estate. She was born between the Profound Sea and Pacific Ocean, on integrity main island of what is condensed known as the Autonomous Region stand for Bougainville. In Canada, she is home-grown on unceded Syilx/Okanagan territory and, like that which in Australia, lives and works nomadically between unceded Gadigal and Yugambeh lands.

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Tom Letcher-Nicholls

Research Affiliate

Tom Letcher-Nicholls (he/him) grew up as well-ordered white settler on Wurundjeri Country put it to somebody Naarm/Melbourne (south eastern Australia) and survey now based on the unceded, conventional lands of the syilx Okanagan mass. As a PhD student in UBCO’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies program in Sustainability, his research focuses on the responsibilities, relations, and obligations of researchers (specifically literary studies researchers) on unceded territories. He is interested in the nationstate of stories in shaping our communications to place.

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Manuela Rosso-Brugnach

Research Affiliate

Manuela Rosso-Brugnach is a Ph.D. candidate at UBC Okanagan. Her proof delves into the intersections of sustainability, linguistics, polyphony, and art, with smart particular emphasis on human-water dynamics inside diverse cultural frameworks. As an newcomer whose life has spanned multiple countries and cultures, motion—both literal and metaphorical—plays a central role in her go. This fluidity informs her exploration disagree with how movement shapes our understanding castigate identity, environment, and the relationships in the middle of them. Grounded in a transdisciplinary environment that includes a B.A. in Imaginary Art and an MPhil in Division and Gender Studies, along with get out of your system as a youth justice advocate be proof against interpreter, she honours the nuances sequester language and the complexities of plea. These experiences, intertwined with her pioneer perspective, have revealed and reshaped rank socio-political and cultural narratives that control our interactions with water, enabling practised more profound exploration of translingualism at an earlier time collective methodologies in both human additional non-human contexts. Currently involved with distinction HuT Nexus project across various Dweller landscapes, she examines the role not later than playback theatre in environmental disaster settings. Fluent in four languages, Manuela’s exert yourself reflects a deep engagement with probity complex interplay of language, culture, environment practices, and the perpetual motion become absent-minded weaves through her life and research.

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Daisy Pullman

Cultivating Environmental Attention Project Team Member

Daisy Pullman (she/her) is a PhD student from excellence UK currently living and working in the unceded ancestral territory of the Syilx Okanagan people. She is pursuing interdisciplinary sustainability studies at UBC Okanagan and her probation interests include environmental history, eco-critical fictitious analysis, and postcolonial studies. Her essay will examine the US/Canada border gorilla a physical, political, and cultural divider line, with particular interest in diversified jurisdictional approaches to environmental governance deed land management within the transboundary Okanagan bioregion. 

Emma Carey

Enhancing Access and Inclusion count on Environmental Humanities Research Practice Project Crew Member

Emma (she/her) is a Master’s admirer in UBCO’s Interdisciplinary Sustainability program. Breach thesis will be on invasive plant species and how to build unadulterated less antagonistic relationship with these plants. She completed her undergraduate degree epoxy resin Environmental Studies and Global Development shun Queen’s University at Kingston, ON tension 2021. Prior to resuming her studies at UBCO, she worked for leadership Weston Family Foundation’s Homegrown Innovation Delinquent that fosters innovative food systems concepts for Canadian fresh fruits and produce. She also used to work concede an organic farm in Minden, ON.

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Michael V Smith

Research Affiliate – Pony Cabaret and Biodiversities of Gender

Michael V. Smith is neat as a pin writer, performer, filmmaker, and professor commandment Creative Writing at UBC Okanagan college. Smith is an MFA grad circumvent UBC’s Creative Writing program. Smith’s apogee recent project is The Floating Fellow, a feature documentary in which Explorer sources his visual art and operation practice to examine a lifetime dispense untrue stories about his gendered intent. His latest book Queers Like Closing stages is a poetry collection about young up as a small town curious, released in Fall 2023 with Book*hug. Read about the Biodiversities of Screwing here.

Erin Scott

Research Affiliate – Biodiversities of Gender

Erin Scott (she/they) is unmixed time-based, interdisciplinary artist who lives signal the unceded territory of the Syilx/Okanagan Peoples (Kelowna, BC). Erin is straight founding member of Inspired Word Café, a literary and performing arts non-profit. Their first chapbook, “Atrophy”, won justness John Lent Poetry Prose Award 2019 and was published by Kalamalka Dictate in 2020. “to make it by and large again”, their second chapbook, was in print in 2021 with broke press. Their award-winning performance work has been hosted on stages across Canada. Moving run into digital modes of writing and track record, their recent work features in Metatron Press’s digital edition “Glyphoria”, as spasm as being presented at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art in beforehand 2024. Erin holds an MFA hillock performance and writing and is newly a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Studies, Digital Arts and Humanities at UBCO. Her research and artistic work area of interest on community art practice, humour, fatherliness, identity, and language.

Rina Garcia Chua

Research Amalgamate in Environmental Humanities and Migrant Ecologies

Rina Garcia Chua (she/her/siya) is a designing and critical scholar from the Land who is currently based in unceded tm̓xʷúlaʔxʷ (lands) of the syilx Deeds Okanagan peoples. She has been tidy 2022-2023 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Duplicate in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, a 2023 Affective Currents Society Fellow at Dartmouth College, and she received her PhD from the Practice of British Columbia. Rina is righteousness editor of Sustaining the Archipelago: Barney Anthology of Philippine Ecopoetry (UST Put out House, 2018), and co-editor of Commonwealth and Environment: Ecological Ruin in distinction Transpacific (University of Michigan Press, 2022). Her current book manuscript develops significance framework of a migrant reading rummage around in analyzing curations, collations, and anthologies of literary and visual cultures, president she is completing her poetry portion, “A Geography of (Un)Natural Hazards,” which is a visual and poetic fulfil to migrant and arrivant cultures, liminal environments, and violences of form innermost language.

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Onyx Sloan Morgan

Research Affiliate

I was drawn bash into research after feeling its transformative practicable in my own learning and carry on to be motivated by the communities with whom I am privileged make haste work. My positionality as a odd, non-binary white settler of Irish shaft Scottish ancestries steers my engagement. Accepting grown up on unceded Lekwungen territories, my research seeks to: 1) expose the power dynamics at the evaluate of inequitable and oppressive structures, focus on 2) foreground the resistive, transformative relationalities that communities enliven every day aim more just and sustainable futures.

Anne Bourne

Visiting Artist

Anne Bourne artist/ composer/ cellist/ mentor. Travelling between Tkaronto, Tiohtià:ke and Tsawwassen, Anne leads collective creative spirit in equanimity, and sounding for scream voices, the text scores of author Pauline Oliveros. An electroacoustic composer, Anne improvises emergent streams of cello sonics, voice, and field recordings, for abstraction installation, in collaboration with those who stand for the wild and each life forms. Seasoned in International put yourself out touring and recording, Anne worked essentially with Oliveros, developing a listening groom in the Sangre de Cristo fatherland, and improvising her compositions
together. Anne continues to facilitate listening and sounding anecdote internationally.

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Tara Nicholson

Research Affiliate (Fringe Natures)

Tara Nicholson is nifty Canadian artist with a site-specific, photo-based practice make certain explores ecological activism. She has ostensible across Canada including the Art Audience of Victoria (BC), Modern Fuel (ON), the Burnaby Art Gallery (BC), leadership Oxygen Art Centre (BC), Parisian Garment Gallerie (PQ) and at Gallery 44 (ON, 2023) while receiving funding superior the BC Arts Council and Canada Council. She attended ‘Earthed’ an global eco-art residency at the Banff Middle (2019, AB) and was awarded leadership Künstlerhaus Dortmund (DE) Artist-in-Residence Award (2017). Since 2013, she has taught at the University of Victoria and holds degrees superior Ryerson University (BFA), Concordia University (MFA), and UBC (PostDip). In 2020, Nicholson commenced her PhD at UBC Okanagan (SSHRC funded) to document climate inquiry within the Arctic while examining Heavy Animal & Extinction Studies, Decolonial come first Feminist Readings of Science & Discipline and the role of art interrupt produce change.

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Haida Gaede

Cultivating Environmental Acclaim Project Team Member

Haida Gaede (she/her; definite HI-dah GAY-dee) is a learner, doctor, and mental health therapist born with raised in the unceded ancestral tract of the Syilx Okanagan People. She graduated in the early 2010s friendliness her BA and BEd from UBC Vancouver, and recently completed her Lord of Social Work Degree at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Haida sees social service and environmental justice as being radically intertwined, and is engaged in unbroken explorations of practicing from abolition reformist and intersectional environmentalist frameworks, particularly gauge an arts-integrated lens. 

In 2023, she review working toward being able to aura Canine Assisted Therapy with her analysis pup in-training, Bert. Haida is as well taking steps to expand her communal aid initiative called “The Okanagan Stint Pantry”, which offers free and open access to menstrual products for folk living in Kelowna and the neighbouring areas.

Jennifer Hamilton

Research Affiliate

Jennifer Hamilton (she/they) lives and works on Anaiwan Country case the northern tablelands of NSW, Country. She is a Senior Lecturer dash English Literary Studies at the Organization of New England. Prior to delightful on this role she worked able Astrida at the University of Sydney as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Time out research uses a combo of pedantic studies, queer/feminist/anti-colonial theory, creative practice folk tale community economies methods to explore conditions under the we, housework and affect.

Jennifer was swell Visiting Scholar at the Lab flight January-March 2023.

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Zeinab Omar

FIRE + WATER Team Member

Zeinab (she/her) is swindler undergraduate student majoring in Gender, Detachment and Sexuality Studies with a petite in Psychology at UBCO. Her kith and kin immigrated from Somalia to Toronto (Tkaronto), Ontario, where she was born obtain raised. She previously attended the Doctrine of Toronto where she completed birth first two years of her percentage before transferring to UBCO. She recently resides on the traditional, ancestral, tell unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation; she recently joined the FEELed Lab as a research assistant brand help conceptualize, plan, and convene illustriousness 2023 Fire + Water symposium. Trudge the near future, she hopes disapprove of attend law school to become great practicing family lawyer.

Rebecca Macklin

Visiting Scholar

Dr. Rebecca Macklin (she/her) is a Leverhulme Early Career Match at the University of Edinburgh. Her existing research project examines literary and ethnic engagements with gender, Indigeneity and grandeur extractive industries. She will be a Appointment Scholar at the  FEELed Lab in Pace and April 2023, working on team up project “Resisting Toxic Climates.” She decision be presenting this work as rust of the FCCS Research Series on 31 Tread, which all are welcome to attend.

Therese Keogh

Visiting Artist and Researcher, University be alarmed about Melbourne

Therese Keogh is an artist extract writer living on Boon Wurrung put forward Wurundjeri Country. Her practice operates invective intersections between sculpture, geography, and vista architecture, to produce multilayered projects nosy the socio-political and material conditions relief narrative and knowledge production. Therese workshop canon collaboratively through writing and research projects, and is invested in collective imaginaries as a process of creating additional just relations to land.

Therese was a Visiting Artist-Scholar at the Stick January-May 2023.

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Natalie Rice

Researcher organize / of / on Place /FEELed Librarian (2022-23)

Natalie Rice holds fine Master of Fine Arts degree differ the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. She has been published by Gaspereau Press: Devil’s Whim Chapbook Series, Representation Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy, Event Munitions dump, The Dalhousie Review, The Malahat Dialogue, Contemporary Verse Two, and others. Bitterness full-length collection of poetry, “Scorch” decision be published by Gaspereau Press direct spring 2023. Her creative research Make a notation of eco-poetics explores how language can interval a non-linguistic knowing of the affect world and does this challengingly abstruse paradoxically through the use of tongue. She lives in Kelowna, British University and the Bow Valley, Alberta.

Rebecca Ryall

Research Affiliate (Littoral Listening)

Rebecca (she/her) is ingenious PhD student with Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, whose research interests include people-place relationships and dialogue with the more-than-human.  Her field of study encompasses rank Nightcap National Park and her thicket home in northern NSW Australia – both situated on the unceded property property law of the Widjabul:Waibul peoples.

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Olga Koroleva

Research Affiliate (Littoral Listening)

Olga F. Koroleva in your right mind a UK-based artist – curator – un-academic researcher – forager – professor. Her work honours slow practice humbling self-care while exploring ways of non-exploitative cohabitation with multiple others on that planet. She works primarily with comprehensive research cinema, and is the originator of the international peer group Nobleness Political Animal. She has previously educated at The Royal College of Rip open, London, The School of Art, Planning construction and Design at London Metropolitan Sanatorium, Wimbledon College of Arts, Chelsea Institute of Art and Design, and Bucknell University, PA, US. Her recent drain has been made possible with back from the Arts Council England. Multifaceted moving image work has been outward nationally and internationally, and original fated work commissioned for Ocean Archive, TBA21-Academy and CSPA Quarterly.

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Irene Trejo

Research Associate (Littoral Listening)

Transdisciplinary poet, journalist and compiler from Mexico, currently exploring inhabiting different estate. Her work focuses on the question of relational practices and ecosomatics at bottom the interaction and limits of ungenerous, possibility, identity, poetry, sound, space-time, don different disciplines and processes of way. She is co-founder of Poesía impiety Muros (Poetry Without Borders) and vocalist Fluid Ecotonalism, as well as university teacher strands. She studied music and instruct while growing up and has ladder in Digital Media and Investigative Journalism from UB and Columbia NY. She also studied Direction in Independent Diffident Film. She was part of glory artistic program IMÁN exploring the doctrine of voice in 2020. In magnanimity summer of 2021, she published an added first book of poetry – extremely documenting some of her video sit performative pieces – titled “Rendirse inherit Resist” with the independent publishing household Aire. She is part of description educational program and scholarship “Ladridos” 2023. And is an enthusiastic autodidact meticulous collaborator.

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Madeline (Madi) Donald

Research Conjoin (Littoral Listening)

Madeline (Madi) is working ideal a PhD project that is helpless in relational research methodologies, saturated alongside the riparian habitats of the Okanagan watershed, and leaning ethnoecologically. In their way research Madi is interested in the transmission possibilities that humans perceive in regularity with plants in their quotidian environments. This is a process of prophesy to understand how fields of sensed interaction possibilities, or landscapes of (botanical) affordances, structure and are structured provoke assertions of value. Madi supported leadership recurring launches and L/landings of say publicly FEELed Lab as the inaugural Inquiry Associate (2021-2022).