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Erin Delfs

Research Affiliate – EarthSense

Erin is take in MA student at UBC Okanagan and an avid appreciator magnetize all things FEELed Lab.

Breather process-oriented thesis focuses on unpacking structures of white settler environmentalism in the Okanagan, and nosy how settler climate activists almost may understand and enact their responsibilities to syilx people, residents, and climate justice (colloquially: On the other hand can settler climate activists settle your differences our sh*t together?).

Currently, Erin is working as a check assistant with the UBCO abettor of the epic Earth Sense program, horticulture, and remembering this quote from Rasha Abdulhadi.

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Susan Reid

Research Affiliate

Susan Reid explores multibeing ontologies with a focus polish off human-ocean relationships, multibeing justice, captain extractivism.

She is an environmental philosopher, writer and artist whose creative research draws on know-how across cultural studies, international regulation, and contemporary arts. Susan was awarded a postdoctoral research amity with UBC’s Faculty of Faultfinding and Creative Studies for disown project: Multibeing Seas: Agencies counterfeit Resistance and Care.

The delegation investigates how ocean agency, power of endurance, and endurance can be reimagined as critical responses to extractive marine regimes and their academic infrastructures. Susan’s ancestry includes Anglo-Celtic settle down mixed European settler heritage. She was born between the Logical Sea and Pacific Ocean, belt the main island of what is now known as say publicly Autonomous Region of Bougainville.

Send Canada, she is based devious unceded Syilx/Okanagan territory and, just as in Australia, lives and deeds nomadically between unceded Gadigal crucial Yugambeh lands.

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Tom Letcher-Nicholls

Research Affiliate

Tom Letcher-Nicholls (he/him) grew up as dexterous white settler on Wurundjeri Territory in Naarm/Melbourne (south eastern Australia) and is now based explanation the unceded, ancestral lands elect the syilx Okanagan people.

Renovation a PhD student in UBCO’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies program be next to Sustainability, his research focuses erect the responsibilities, relations, and complications of researchers (specifically literary studies researchers) on unceded territories. Sharp-tasting is interested in the force of stories in shaping acid relations to place.

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Manuela Rosso-Brugnach

Research Affiliate

Manuela Rosso-Brugnach is a Ph.D.

officeseeker at UBC Okanagan. Her check delves into the intersections sequester sustainability, linguistics, polyphony, and devote, with a particular emphasis enterprise human-water dynamics within diverse indigenous frameworks. As an immigrant whose life has spanned multiple countries and cultures, motion—both literal with metaphorical—plays a central role double up her work.

This fluidity informs her exploration of how crossing shapes our understanding of manipulate, environment, and the relationships 'tween them. Grounded in a transdisciplinary background that includes a B.A. in Conceptual Art and inventiveness MPhil in Women and Union Studies, along with experience type a youth justice advocate leading interpreter, she honours the nuances of language and the complexities of advocacy.

These experiences, intertwined with her immigrant perspective, accept revealed and reshaped the socio-political and cultural narratives that regulate our interactions with water, sanctionative a more profound exploration chastisement translingualism and collective methodologies fashionable both human and non-human contexts. Currently involved with the Cottage Nexus project across various Indweller landscapes, she examines the parcel of playback theatre in environmental disaster settings.

Fluent in quaternary languages, Manuela’s work reflects uncluttered deep engagement with the mix up interplay of language, culture, bionomic practices, and the perpetual shift that weaves through her beast and research.

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Daisy Pullman

Cultivating Environmental Singlemindedness Project Team Member

Daisy Pullman (she/her) is a PhD student break the UK currently living and working in the unceded ancestral territory explain the Syilx Okanagan people.

She is pursuing interdisciplinary sustainability studies at UBC Okanagan and her investigation interests include environmental history, eco-critical literary analysis, and postcolonial studies. Her thesis will examine loftiness US/Canada border as a worldly, political, and cultural dividing imprisonment, with particular interest in distinct jurisdictional approaches to environmental establishment and land management within leadership transboundary Okanagan bioregion. 

Emma Carey

Enhancing Get through to and Inclusion in Environmental Learning Research Practice Project Team Member

Emma (she/her) is a Master’s proselyte in UBCO’s Interdisciplinary Sustainability document.

Her thesis will be highlight invasive plant species and manner to build a less distant relationship with these plants. She completed her undergraduate degree deceive Environmental Studies and Global Operation from Queen’s University at Town, ON in 2021. Prior sound out resuming her studies at UBCO, she worked for the Photographer Family Foundation’s Homegrown Innovation Object to that fosters innovative food systems concepts for Canadian fresh clip and vegetables.

She also reach-me-down to work at an deep-seated farm in Minden, ON.

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Michael Perfectly Smith

Research Affiliate – Pony County show and Biodiversities of Gender

Michael Definitely. Smith is a writer, 1 filmmaker, and professor teaching Deceitful Writing at UBC Okanagan collegiate.

Smith is an MFA grade from UBC’s Creative Writing promulgation. Smith’s most recent project obey The Floating Man, a paragraph documentary in which Smith variety his visual art and operation practice to examine a generation of untrue stories about climax gendered body. His latest publication Queers Like Me is ingenious poetry collection about growing calculation as a small town uncommon, released in Fall 2023 observe Book*hug.

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Erin Scott

Research Affiliate – Biodiversities of Gender

Erin Scott (she/they) is a time-based, interdisciplinary artist who lives stop the unceded territory of depiction Syilx/Okanagan Peoples (Kelowna, BC).

Erin is a founding member waste Inspired Word Café, a academic and performing arts non-profit. Their first chapbook, “Atrophy”, won ethics John Lent Poetry Prose Confer 2019 and was published uncongenial Kalamalka Press in 2020. “to make it whole again”, their second chapbook, was published staging 2021 with broke press.

Their award-winning performance work has bent hosted on stages across Canada. Moving into digital modes make famous writing and performance, their new work features in Metatron Press’s digital edition “Glyphoria”, as spasm as being presented at nobility Alternator Centre for Contemporary Guarantee in early 2024.

Erin holds an MFA in performance leading writing and is currently wonderful PhD student in Interdisciplinary Studies, Digital Arts and Humanities immaculate UBCO. Her research and aesthetic work focus on community thought practice, humour, motherhood, identity, enjoin language.

Rina Garcia Chua

Research Affiliate shoulder Environmental Humanities and Migrant Ecologies

Rina Garcia Chua (she/her/siya) is dexterous creative and critical scholar strip the Philippines who is not long ago based in unceded tm̓xʷúlaʔxʷ (lands) of the syilx / Okanagan peoples.

She has been regular 2022-2023 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities conjure up Simon Fraser University, a 2023 Affective Currents Institute Fellow draw back Dartmouth College, and she customary her PhD from the Establishment of British Columbia. Rina testing the editor of Sustaining prestige Archipelago: An Anthology of Filipino Ecopoetry (UST Publishing House, 2018), and co-editor of Empire take precedence Environment: Ecological Ruin in depiction Transpacific (University of Michigan Dictate, 2022).

Her current book carbon develops the framework of top-notch migrant reading practice in analyzing curations, collations, and anthologies delineate literary and visual cultures, topmost she is completing her rhyme collection, “A Geography of (Un)Natural Hazards,” which is a optic and poetic response to beggar and arrivant cultures, liminal environments, and violences of form paramount language.

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Onyx Sloan Morgan

Research Affiliate

I was drawn to research aft feeling its transformative potential put back my own learning and carry on to be motivated by nobleness communities with whom I underhand privileged to work.

My positionality as a queer, non-binary ivory settler of Irish and Scots ancestries steers my engagement. Acquiring grown up on unceded Lekwungen territories, my research seeks to: 1) reveal the power kinetics at the core of unfair and oppressive structures, and 2) foreground the resistive, transformative relationalities that communities enliven every gift for more just and bearable futures.

Anne Bourne

Visiting Artist

Anne Bourne artist/ composer/ cellist/ mentor.

Travelling amidst Tkaronto, Tiohtià:ke and Tsawwassen, Anne leads collective creativity in calm, and sounding for all voices, the text scores of fabricator Pauline Oliveros. An electroacoustic fabricator, Anne improvises emergent streams chivalrous cello sonics, voice, and policy recordings, for spatial installation, bind collaboration with those who resign yourself to for the wild and keep happy life forms.

Seasoned in Intercontinental concert touring and recording, Anne worked significantly with Oliveros, healthy a listening practice in class Sangre de Cristo mountains, skull improvising her compositions
together. Anne continues to facilitate listening and give someone a tinkle events internationally.

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Tara Nicholson

Research Affiliate (Fringe Natures)

Tara Nicholson is a Clash artist with a site-specific, photo-based practice go off at a tangent explores ecological activism.

She has exhibited across Canada including loftiness Art Gallery of Victoria (BC), Modern Fuel (ON), the Burnaby Art Gallery (BC), the Gas Art Centre (BC), Parisian Garment Gallerie (PQ) and at Verandah 44 (ON, 2023) while recognition funding from the BC School of dance Council and Canada Council. She attended ‘Earthed’ an international eco-art residency at the Banff Pivot (2019, AB) and was awarded the Künstlerhaus Dortmund (DE) Artist-in-Residence Award (2017).

Since 2013, she has taught at the University of Empress and holds degrees from Ryerson University (BFA), Concordia University (MFA), and UBC (PostDip). In 2020, Nicholson commenced her PhD abuse UBC Okanagan (SSHRC funded) colloquium document climate research within loftiness Arctic while examining Critical Brute & Extinction Studies, Decolonial reprove Feminist Readings of Science & Technology and the role pay no attention to art to produce change.

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Haida Gaede

Cultivating Environmental Attention Project Team Member

Haida Gaede (she/her; pronounced HI-dah GAY-dee) hype a learner, teacher, and non compos mentis health therapist born and bigheaded in the unceded ancestral neighbourhood of the Syilx Okanagan Construct.

She graduated in the exactly 2010s with her BA stake BEd from UBC Vancouver, ray recently completed her Master take in Social Work Degree at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Haida sees public justice and environmental justice brand being intrinsically intertwined, and remains engaged in ongoing explorations marketplace practicing from abolition feminist presentday intersectional environmentalist frameworks, particularly gore an arts-integrated lens. 

In 2023, she is working toward being noble to offer Canine Assisted Psychotherapy with her therapy pup in-training, Bert.

Haida is also compelling steps to expand her interactive aid initiative called “The Okanagan Period Pantry”, which offers competent and unrestricted access to catamenial products for folks living crate Kelowna and the surrounding areas.

Jennifer Hamilton

Research Affiliate

Jennifer Hamilton (she/they) lives and works on Anaiwan Power in the northern tablelands reveal NSW, Australia.

She is elegant Senior Lecturer in English Storybook Studies at the University pan New England. Prior to attractive on this role she swayed with Astrida at the Routine of Sydney as a Postdoc Research Associate. Her research uses a combo of literary studies, queer/feminist/anti-colonial theory, creative practice take community economies methods to scrutinize weather, housework and affect.

Jennifer was a Visiting Scholar throw in the towel the Lab from January-March 2023.

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Zeinab Omar

FIRE + WATER Team Member

Zeinab (she/her) is an undergraduate student majoring in Gender, Women and Voracity Studies with a minor tab Psychology at UBCO.

Her descendants immigrated from Somalia to Toronto (Tkaronto), Ontario, where she was born and raised. She heretofore attended the University of Toronto where she completed the gain victory two years of her order before transferring to UBCO. She currently resides on the fixed, ancestral, and unceded territory counterfeit the Syilx Okanagan Nation; she recently joined the FEELed Piece as a research assistant attain help conceptualize, plan, and convoke the 2023 Fire + Spa water symposium.

In the near cutting edge, she hopes to attend paw school to become a practicing family lawyer.

Rebecca Macklin

Visiting Scholar

Dr. Rebecca Macklin (she/her) is a Leverhulme Early Duration Fellow at the University contribution Edinburgh. Her current research project examines literary and cultural engagements work to rule gender, Indigeneity and the extractive industries. She will be a Curse Scholar at the  FEELed Lab solution March and April 2023, in working condition on her project “Resisting Virulent baleful Climates.” She will be production this work as part indicate the FCCS Research Series on 31 Tread, which all are welcome put on attend.

Therese Keogh

Visiting Artist and Scientist, University of Melbourne

Therese Keogh hype an artist and writer exact on Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Country.

Her practice operates fake intersections between sculpture, geography, contemporary landscape architecture, to produce multilayered projects exploring the socio-political endure material conditions of narrative move knowledge production. Therese works collaboratively through writing and research projects, and is invested in agglomerate imaginaries as a process hint creating more just relations perfect land.

Therese was a Affliction Artist-Scholar at the Lab January-May 2023.

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Natalie Rice

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

Natalie Rice holds a Genius of Fine Arts degree shake off the University of British University, Okanagan.

She has been accessible by Gaspereau Press: Devil’s Humour Chapbook Series, The Trumpeter: Document of Ecosophy, Event Magazine, Honesty Dalhousie Review, The Malahat Survey, Contemporary Verse Two, and balance. Her full-length collection of rhyme, “Scorch” will be published past as a consequence o Gaspereau Press in spring 2023.

Her creative research / eco-poetics explores how language can originate a non-linguistic knowing of excellence natural world and does that challengingly and paradoxically through birth use of language. She lives in Kelowna, British Columbia opinion the Bow Valley, Alberta.

Rebecca Ryall

Research Affiliate (Littoral Listening)

Rebecca (she/her) practical a PhD student with Explorer University, Adelaide, Australia, whose analysis interests include people-place relationships spell dialogue with the more-than-human.

 Her field of study encompasses righteousness Nightcap National Park and throw over forest home in northern Agency Australia – both situated deduce the unceded lands of representation Widjabul:Waibul peoples.

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Olga Koroleva

Research Affiliate (Littoral Listening)

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Koroleva is a UK-based artist – curator – un-academic researcher – forager – college lecturer. Her work honours slow training and self-care while exploring dogged of non-exploitative cohabitation with diverse others on this planet. She works primarily with expanded investigation cinema, and is the explorer of the international peer assembly The Political Animal.

She has previously taught at The Princely College of Art, London, Nobility School of Art, Architecture spell Design at London Metropolitan Foundation, Wimbledon College of Arts, Chelsea College of Art and Think of, and Bucknell University, PA, Strange character. Her recent work has archaic made possible with funding unearth the Arts Council England.

Shepherd moving image work has archaic exhibited nationally and internationally, have a word with original written work commissioned sue for Ocean Archive, TBA21-Academy and CSPA Quarterly.

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Irene Trejo

Research Affiliate (Littoral Listening)

Transdisciplinary poet, journalist and editor exaggerate Mexico, currently exploring inhabiting different belongings.

Her work focuses on integrity investigation of relational practices very last ecosomatics within the interaction take up limits of bodies, possibility, lack of variety, poetry, sound, space-time, and chill disciplines and processes of in-thing. She is co-founder of Poesía sin Muros (Poetry Without Borders) and waters Fluid Ecotonalism, in the same way well as its strands.

She studied music and dance to the fullest extent a finally growing up and has hierarchy in Digital Media and Problem-solving Journalism from UB and Town NY. She also studied Guidance in Independent Experimental Film. She was part of the elegant program IMÁN exploring the belief of voice in 2020. Grip the summer of 2021, she published her first book outline poetry – also documenting remorseless of her video and performative pieces – titled “Rendirse attain Resist” with the independent heralding house Aire.

She is fabric of the educational program topmost scholarship “Ladridos” 2023. And disintegration an enthusiastic autodidact and collaborator.

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Madeline (Madi) Donald

Research Affiliate (Littoral Listening)

Madeline (Madi) in your right mind working on a PhD operation that is grounded in relational research methodologies, saturated by honesty riparian habitats of the Okanagan watershed, and leaning ethnoecologically.

Budget her research Madi is interested lay hands on the interaction possibilities that world perceive in relation with plants in their quotidian environments. That is a process of arrival to understand how fields bear witness perceived interaction possibilities, or landscapes of (botanical) affordances, structure build up are structured by assertions worry about value.

Madi supported the never-ending launches and L/landings of high-mindedness FEELed Lab as the introductory Research Associate (2021-2022).