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Melanie Goodchild: Niigani Miinigowiziiwin (we give these gifts to the future)

This keynote is a story of decolonizing (unbraiding) at the nexus/interface of Anishinaabe wisdom and Euroscience.  It is the story of a walk in the woods with complexity.


Melanie Goodchild, moose clan, is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibway woman) from Biigtigong Nishnaabeg First Nation and Ketegaunseebee (Garden River) First Nation.  She is a systems thinking and complexity scholar who offers a uniquely Anishinaabeg approach to making sense of society's most entrenched problems.  She is a PhD candidate in Social & Ecological Sustainability in the School of Environment, Resources & Sustainability (SERS) in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo.  Melanie is a Research Fellow with the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation & Resilience (WISIR) and a faculty member of the u-school for Transformation by the Presencing Institute, the Academy for Systems Change and the Wolf Willow Institute for Systems Learning.  She is an International Women's Forum (IWF) Leadership Fellows Program alumni (2015-16), a program sponsored by Harvard Business School and INSEAD.   She lives with her family in Baawaating (place of the rapids), in the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy.  

Julius Lindsay: Climate Justice


Julius Lindsay is the Director of Sustainable Communities at the David Suzuki Foundation. He leads the Foundation’s work to accelerate and raise the ambition of climate action in cities across the place now known as Canada. He is also a co-founder of the Black Environmentalist Alliance, an organization that seeks to champion black people in the environmental profession, provide a safe space for peer-to-peer engagement to have real conversations and share experiences, and to advocate for environmental justice for Black Canadians now and in the future. Prior to these two roles, Julius has been the catalyst for and led the development of climate change plans, programs, and policies at two of the biggest cities, Mississauga and Richmond Hill, in Ontario, Canada’s Largest Province.

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