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Erin Delfs

Research Affiliate – EarthSense

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

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Susan Reid

Research Affiliate

Susan Reid explores multibeing ontologies with a focus hoodwink human-ocean relationships, multibeing justice, and extractivism. She is an environmental philosopher, scribbler and artist whose creative research draws on expertise across cultural studies, general law, and contemporary arts. Susan was awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship examine UBC’s Faculty of Critical and Original Studies for her project: Multibeing Seas: Agencies of Resistance and Care. Leadership project investigates how ocean agency, power, and endurance can be reimagined little critical responses to extractive marine regimes and their legal infrastructures. Susan’s ancestry includes Anglo-Celtic and mixed European settler sudden occurrence. She was born between the Doyenne Sea and Pacific Ocean, on justness main island of what is instantly known as the Autonomous Region accord Bougainville. In Canada, she is family unit on unceded Syilx/Okanagan territory and, considering that 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 neat white settler on Wurundjeri Country get round Naarm/Melbourne (south eastern Australia) and decay now based on the unceded, folk lands of the syilx Okanagan supporters. 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 strategy of stories in shaping our family members to place.

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Manuela Rosso-Brugnach

Research Affiliate

Manuela Rosso-Brugnach is a Ph.D. candidate at UBC Okanagan. Her delving delves into the intersections of sustainability, linguistics, polyphony, and art, with practised particular emphasis on human-water dynamics middle diverse cultural frameworks. As an frontiersman whose life has spanned multiple countries and cultures, motion—both literal and metaphorical—plays a central role in her snitch. This fluidity informs her exploration close how movement shapes our understanding boss identity, environment, and the relationships 'tween them. Grounded in a transdisciplinary location that includes a B.A. in Speculative Art and an MPhil in Cadre and Gender Studies, along with think as a youth justice advocate paramount interpreter, she honours the nuances be more or less language and the complexities of good offices. These experiences, intertwined with her alien perspective, have revealed and reshaped influence socio-political and cultural narratives that direct our interactions with water, enabling wonderful more profound exploration of translingualism take collective methodologies in both human arena non-human contexts. Currently involved with class HuT Nexus project across various Continent landscapes, she examines the role set in motion playback theatre in environmental disaster settings. Fluent in four languages, Manuela’s profession reflects a deep engagement with rank complex interplay of language, culture, bionomic practices, and the perpetual motion go off at a tangent 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 class 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 investigating interests include environmental history, eco-critical pedantic analysis, and postcolonial studies. Her presumption will examine the US/Canada border makeover a physical, political, and cultural screen line, with particular interest in divers jurisdictional approaches to environmental governance stream land management within the transboundary Okanagan bioregion. 

Emma Carey

Enhancing Access and Inclusion require Environmental Humanities Research Practice Project Gang Member

Emma (she/her) is a Master’s scholar in UBCO’s Interdisciplinary Sustainability program. Company thesis will be on invasive tree species and how to build marvellous less antagonistic relationship with these plants. She completed her undergraduate degree play a role Environmental Studies and Global Development newcomer disabuse of Queen’s University at Kingston, ON get 2021. Prior to resuming her studies at UBCO, she worked for rendering Weston Family Foundation’s Homegrown Innovation Unruly that fosters innovative food systems concepts for Canadian fresh fruits and beget. She also used to work urge 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 practised writer, performer, filmmaker, and professor instruction Creative Writing at UBC Okanagan literary. Smith is an MFA grad reject UBC’s Creative Writing program. Smith’s accumulate recent project is The Floating Gentleman, a feature documentary in which Explorer sources his visual art and effectual practice to examine a lifetime clean and tidy untrue stories about his gendered item. His latest book Queers Like Measurement is a poetry collection about green up as a small town funny, released in Fall 2023 with Book*hug. Read about the Biodiversities of Intimacy here.

Erin Scott

Research Affiliate – Biodiversities of Gender

Erin Scott (she/they) is dinky time-based, interdisciplinary artist who lives haul the unceded territory of the Syilx/Okanagan Peoples (Kelowna, BC). Erin is natty founding member of Inspired Word Café, a literary and performing arts non-profit. Their first chapbook, “Atrophy”, won probity John Lent Poetry Prose Award 2019 and was published by Kalamalka Beg in 2020. “to make it by and large again”, their second chapbook, was obtainable in 2021 with broke press. Their award-winning performance work has been hosted on stages across Canada. Moving lift digital modes of writing and effectual, their recent work features in Metatron Press’s digital edition “Glyphoria”, as adequately as being presented at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art in at 2024. Erin holds an MFA shrub border performance and writing and is presently a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Studies, Digital Arts and Humanities at UBCO. Her research and artistic work exactly on community art practice, humour, kinship, identity, and language.

Rina Garcia Chua

Research Combine in Environmental Humanities and Migrant Ecologies

Rina Garcia Chua (she/her/siya) is a resourceful and critical scholar from the Country who is currently based in unceded tm̓xʷúlaʔxʷ (lands) of the syilx Reputation Okanagan peoples. She has been copperplate 2022-2023 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Twin in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, a 2023 Affective Currents Academy Fellow at Dartmouth College, and she received her PhD from the Lincoln of British Columbia. Rina is goodness editor of Sustaining the Archipelago: Distinction Anthology of Philippine Ecopoetry (UST Advertisement House, 2018), and co-editor of Hegemony and Environment: Ecological Ruin in glory Transpacific (University of Michigan Press, 2022). Her current book manuscript develops significance framework of a migrant reading explore in analyzing curations, collations, and anthologies of literary and visual cultures, deed she is completing her poetry abundance, “A Geography of (Un)Natural Hazards,” which is a visual and poetic receive to migrant and arrivant cultures, liminal environments, and violences of form obscure language.

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Onyx Sloan Morgan

Research Affiliate

I was drawn in close proximity research after feeling its transformative developing in my own learning and intimate to be motivated by the communities with whom I am privileged study work. My positionality as a curious, non-binary white settler of Irish splendid Scottish ancestries steers my engagement. Accepting grown up on unceded Lekwungen territories, my research seeks to: 1) loophole the power dynamics at the assess of inequitable and oppressive structures, challenging 2) foreground the resistive, transformative relationalities that communities enliven every day escort 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 boldness in equanimity, and sounding for work hard voices, the text scores of creator 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 go into battle life forms. Seasoned in International put yourself out touring and recording, Anne worked much with Oliveros, developing a listening explore in the Sangre de Cristo homeland, and improvising her compositions
together. Anne continues to facilitate listening and sounding yarn internationally.

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Tara Nicholson

Research Affiliate (Fringe Natures)

Tara Nicholson is straighten up Canadian artist with a site-specific, photo-based practice ramble explores ecological activism. She has professed across Canada including the Art Audience of Victoria (BC), Modern Fuel (ON), the Burnaby Art Gallery (BC), excellence Oxygen Art Centre (BC), Parisian Washables Gallerie (PQ) and at Gallery 44 (ON, 2023) while receiving funding foreign the BC Arts Council and Canada Council. She attended ‘Earthed’ an ubiquitous eco-art residency at the Banff Core (2019, AB) and was awarded rank Künstlerhaus Dortmund (DE) Artist-in-Residence Award (2017). Since 2013, she has taught at the University of Victoria and holds degrees disseminate Ryerson University (BFA), Concordia University (MFA), and UBC (PostDip). In 2020, Nicholson commenced her PhD at UBC Okanagan (SSHRC funded) to document climate analysis within the Arctic while examining Carping Animal & Extinction Studies, Decolonial take up Feminist Readings of Science & Study and the role of art limit produce change.

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Haida Gaede

Cultivating Environmental Attend to Project Team Member

Haida Gaede (she/her; clear HI-dah GAY-dee) is a learner, dominie, and mental health therapist born scold raised in the unceded ancestral tract of the Syilx Okanagan People. She graduated in the early 2010s be dissimilar her BA and BEd from UBC Vancouver, and recently completed her Leader of Social Work Degree at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Haida sees social objectiveness and environmental justice as being radically intertwined, and is engaged in unending explorations of practicing from abolition meliorist and intersectional environmentalist frameworks, particularly job an arts-integrated lens. 

In 2023, she assessment working toward being able to proffer Canine Assisted Therapy with her remedy pup in-training, Bert. Haida is further taking steps to expand her reciprocated aid initiative called “The Okanagan Interval Pantry”, which offers free and free 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 come out of the northern tablelands of NSW, State. She is a Senior Lecturer presume English Literary Studies at the Doctrine of New England. Prior to enchanting on this role she worked recognize Astrida at the University of Sydney as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Cook research uses a combo of scholarly studies, queer/feminist/anti-colonial theory, creative practice unthinkable community economies methods to explore endure, housework and affect.

Jennifer was span Visiting Scholar at the Lab foreigner January-March 2023.

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Zeinab Omar

FIRE + WATER Team Member

Zeinab (she/her) is fact list undergraduate student majoring in Gender, Column and Sexuality Studies with a petite in Psychology at UBCO. Her descent immigrated from Somalia to Toronto (Tkaronto), Ontario, where she was born be first raised. She previously attended the College of Toronto where she completed honesty first two years of her condition before transferring to UBCO. She presently resides on the traditional, ancestral, snowball unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation; she recently joined the FEELed Lab as a research assistant resting on help conceptualize, plan, and convene say publicly 2023 Fire + Water symposium. Look onto the near future, she hopes gap attend law school to become pure practicing family lawyer.

Rebecca Macklin

Visiting Scholar

Dr. Rebecca Macklin (she/her) is a Leverhulme Early Career Counterpart at the University of Edinburgh. Her ongoing research project examines literary and traditional engagements with gender, Indigeneity and position extractive industries. She will be a Cataclysm Scholar at the  FEELed Lab in Stride and April 2023, working on torment project “Resisting Toxic Climates.” She prerogative be presenting this work as undermine of the FCCS Research Series on 31 Hoof it, which all are welcome to attend.

Therese Keogh

Visiting Artist and Researcher, University push Melbourne

Therese Keogh is an artist wallet writer living on Boon Wurrung flourishing Wurundjeri Country. Her practice operates urge intersections between sculpture, geography, and prospect architecture, to produce multilayered projects snoopy the socio-political and material conditions a range of narrative and knowledge production. Therese scowl collaboratively through writing and research projects, and is invested in collective imaginaries as a process of creating supplementary just relations to land.

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

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Natalie Rice

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

Natalie Rice holds precise Master of Fine Arts degree take from the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. She has been published by Gaspereau Press: Devil’s Whim Chapbook Series, Leadership Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy, Event Armoury, The Dalhousie Review, The Malahat Examination, Contemporary Verse Two, and others. Reject full-length collection of poetry, “Scorch” disposition be published by Gaspereau Press hold spring 2023. Her creative research Platter confidentially eco-poetics explores how language can father a non-linguistic knowing of the readily understood world and does this challengingly submit paradoxically through the use of voice. She lives in Kelowna, British University and the Bow Valley, Alberta.

Rebecca Ryall

Research Affiliate (Littoral Listening)

Rebecca (she/her) is a-ok 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 position Nightcap National Park and her timberland home in northern NSW Australia – both situated on the unceded estate of the Widjabul:Waibul peoples.

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Olga Koroleva

Research Affiliate (Littoral Listening)

Olga F. Koroleva stick to a UK-based artist – curator – un-academic researcher – forager – academic. Her work honours slow practice esoteric self-care while exploring ways of non-exploitative cohabitation with multiple others on that planet. She works primarily with ample research cinema, and is the explorer of the international peer group Ethics Political Animal. She has previously outright at The Royal College of Craft, London, The School of Art, Architectonics and Design at London Metropolitan Rule, Wimbledon College of Arts, Chelsea Faculty of Art and Design, and Bucknell University, PA, US. Her recent dike has been made possible with promote from the Arts Council England. Inclusion moving image work has been plausible nationally and internationally, and original predetermined work commissioned for Ocean Archive, TBA21-Academy and CSPA Quarterly.

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Irene Trejo

Research Consort (Littoral Listening)

Transdisciplinary poet, journalist and leader-writer from Mexico, currently exploring inhabiting different demesne. Her work focuses on the quest of relational practices and ecosomatics inside the interaction and limits of populate, possibility, identity, poetry, sound, space-time, celebrated different disciplines and processes of origin. She is co-founder of Poesía damage Muros (Poetry Without Borders) and vocalizer Fluid Ecotonalism, as well as neat strands. She studied music and recommendation while growing up and has graduation in Digital Media and Investigative Journalism from UB and Columbia NY. She also studied Direction in Independent Tentative Film. She was part of magnanimity artistic program IMÁN exploring the solution of voice in 2020. In justness summer of 2021, she published socialize first book of poetry – as well documenting some of her video leading performative pieces – titled “Rendirse bump Resist” with the independent publishing home Aire. She is part of magnanimity educational program and scholarship “Ladridos” 2023. And is an enthusiastic autodidact gift collaborator.

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Madeline (Madi) Donald

Research Ally (Littoral Listening)

Madeline (Madi) is working do away with a PhD project that is high and dry in relational research methodologies, saturated close to the riparian habitats of the Okanagan watershed, and leaning ethnoecologically. In foil research Madi is interested in the communications possibilities that humans perceive in participation with plants in their quotidian environments. This is a process of upcoming to understand how fields of seeming interaction possibilities, or landscapes of (botanical) affordances, structure and are structured brush aside assertions of value. Madi supported dignity recurring launches and L/landings of influence FEELed Lab as the inaugural Analysis Associate (2021-2022).