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Alicia Massie is a Joseph Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholar and PhD Candidate at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Beyond her academic work she works as an educator, labour organizer, and community activist. Her activism and academic work focus on the intersections of gender, labour, and race in late capitalism, as well as investigating Canadian petro-capitalism from a socialist feminist perspective.Resources:— Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: www.policyalternatives.ca/— SFU's Community-Engaged Research Initiative: www.sfu.ca/ceri.html— Progressive Economics Forum: www.progressive-economics.ca/— Centre for Future Work: www.futurework.org.au/
Author: Massie, Alicia, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-07-20
Bio:Shauna Sylvester is a graduate of McGill University and Simon Fraser University and until recently, served as the Executive Director of the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. Currently she is Professor of Professional Practice at SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and in September she is delighted to be moving into a new role as Executive Director of Urban Sustainability Directors' Network for the US and Canada.She has co-founded and led five initiatives: the SFU Public Square, Carbon Talks, Renewable Cities, Canada's World, and IMPACS – the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society and has worked with colleagues in launching consortiums like Moving in a Livable Region and Canadian Cities + COP26. Shauna has years of experience working globally, in conflict and post-conflict zones, with incredible women's initiatives, media groups, multilateral processes and civil society organizations.In the early 1980s and 90s, she was active with HIV/AIDS, disability, peace and environment organizations. She also worked at IDERA – the International Development Education Research Association, CUSO, Community Living Society and Canada World Youth. Shauna co-chaired SPARC BC's first Community Development Institute, the Civicus World Assembly, led the Canadian forestry working group for the EarthSummit, organized the Canadian meeting for the Beijing Women's conference in 1994 and participated in three COP processes. She has published widely in mainstream newspapers, provided commentary to national and local TV and radio and authored her own climate blog.Resources:The SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue: https://www.sfu.ca/dialogue.htmlThe Social Planning and Research Council of B.C. (SPARC BC): https://www.sparc.bc.ca/Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS): https://reliefweb.int/organization/impacsCuso International: https://cusointernational.org/Canada World Youth: https://canadaworldyouth.org/CIVICUS World Assembly: https://www.civicus.org/worldassembly/Imagine Canada: https://www.imaginecanada.ca/enCanada's World: https://www.sfu.ca/dialogue/programs/international-relations/canadas-world.htmlCOP26: https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/cop26Fossil of the Year Award: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-tagged-as-fossil-of-the-year-1.827062Carbon Talks: https://carbontalks.wordpress.com/about/Renewable Cities: https://www.renewablecities.ca/about-renewable-citiesSFU Public Square: https://www.sfu.ca/publicsquare/about.htmlRenovictions: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/housing-tenancy/residential-tenancies/ending-a-tenancy/renovictionsSemester in Dialogue: https://www.sfu.ca/dialogue/semester/Ecotrust Canada: https://ecotrust.ca/The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada (The Circle): https://www.the-circle.ca/how-we-work.htmlUrban Sustainability Directors Network: https://www.usdn.org/about.html
Author: Shauna Sylvester, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi, Author: Steve Tornes, Author: Alex Masse
Date created: 2022-06-07
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Adderson, Caroline, Author: McDonald, Ian, Author: Harcourt, Mike, Author: Luxton, Donald, Author: Waddell, Ian, Author: Heritage Vancouver
Date created: 2015-05-27
Panelists:Riki Ott is a very well known oil spill expert and author. She has a Ph.D (1985) from the School of Fisheries at the University of Washington, WA, on the effects of heavy metals on benthic invertebrates. She is Co-director of Ultimate Civics, a project of Earth Island Institute. She was an Expert witness in the State of Alaska on certain issues relating to effects, fate and transportation of marine oil spills, and environmentally sensitive areas in the Copper River Delta. She co-founded and was Vice-chair of Oiled Regions of Alaska Foundation (2001–2009) to help Exxon Valdez oil spill claimants with financial management and charitable giving to rebuild oiled communities. She was on site of the Exxon Valdez spill 26 years ago. She is particularly well versed on the use of dispersants such as Corexit.Anita M. Burke holds a Bachelors of Science in Environmental Science and Physics from Northland College, where she was recently awarded their Alumni Environmental Achievement Award. At the University of Minnesota, Ms. Burke completed graduate course work in Physics. Anita has extensive experience responding to and restoring ecosystems ravaged by large scale industrial and natural disasters. Her emergency response experience includes: EXXON Valdez; Shell Refinery – Fidalgo Bay, Washington; Texaco Refinery – Bakersfield California; Ms. Burke served as General Manager and Senior Project Manager for the waste management and on-land site assessment activities associated with the clean up of the EXXON Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound. She also served as the Chairperson of the Anchorage, Alaska Hazardous Materials Commission and Chair of the Anchorage Local Emergency Planning Committee under SARA Title III. Ms. Burke also managed ENSR Consulting and Engineering’s Anchorage, Alaska Hazardous Waste Services Division for three years, where she developed an expertise in arctic exploration and production spill response and environmental issue management. In 2001, Ms. Burke left her career in the oil and gas industry due to complications and health. She has been on the frontlines of some of the world’s most devastating oil spills. She will share her insight into the health effects, ecosystem impacts, and how we can survive and thrive amidst the trauma of the English Bay Oil Spill. She is a trained Incident Commander and holds numerous health and safety certifications.Professor Doug McArthur, Director, School of Public Policy, Simon Fraser University. Prior to joining SFU’s Public Policy Program as a founding member in 2003, Doug McArthur was Senior Fellow in Public Policy at the University of British Columbia. His areas of research and teaching include public policy theory and process, government management, forest and resources policy, First Nations policy and self-government, as well as negotiations and strategic planning.Karen G.Wristen is Executive Director of Living Oceans Society, a non-profit ocean conservation organization based in Sointula, B.C. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto and a law degree from Osgoode Hall. She has worked in the environmental movement in British Columbia since 1994. Karen joined the staff of Living Oceans in 2012 after serving as its Treasurer since 1998. Living Oceans is Canada’s largest organization working exclusively on marine conservation. She took on the Energy & Climate Change portfolio and has been actively involved in the assessments of the Northern Gateway and TransMountain pipeline and tanker proposals, working directly with expert witnesses, reviewing and preparing evidence for those hearings. Living Oceans provided expert evidence on, inter alia, oil tankers, oil spill response, the fate and behaviour of diluted bitumen in the marine environment and the international oil spill compensation regime. She has also provided input to the Province of British Columbia on its proposed land-based oil spill response regime. She is dedicated to protecting the Salish Sea!
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Gandesha, Samir, Author: Samples, Shirley, Author: Siegel, Audrey, Author: George-Hollis, Taylor, Author: McArthur, Doug, Author: Ott, Riki, Author: Burke, Anita, Author: Wristen, Karen G.
Date created: 2015-04-29
PANELISTSBerdine Jonker | Berdine Jonker is Acting Manager, Heritage Programs and Services with the BC Heritage Branch, Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. She has worked in the heritage conservation field since 1998, and currently leads the development of provincial heritage conservation policy for Crown Land management. Berdine has worked extensively in building local government capacity for heritage conservation planning and values based management of historic resources. She is a co-instructor of Heritage Resource Management in the University of Victoria’s Cultural Resource Management Program, and is currently a member of the Esquimalt Community Heritage Committee. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Art History), a Diploma in Cultural Resource Management, and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Victoria.Gerry McGeough | Gerry McGeough is the UBC University Architect and steward of the built environment and landscapes for UBC’s three campuses. His responsibilities include leading integrated planning and design of campus precincts, infrastructure, buildings and public realm. He is a Board Member of ICOMOS Canada, Chair of the Association of University Architect Sustainability Committee and member of the Advisory Committee on the Official Residences of Canada. He is also a member of the ICOMOS Canada’s Working Group – National Conversation on Cultural Landscapes. Prior to his start at UBC, Gerry had 21 years of professional architectural, planning and heritage practice as the Senior Heritage Planner for the City of Vancouver, adjunct professor with the University of Victoria Cultural Resource Management Program, and an architect specializing in infill and adaptive-reuse projects in Montreal. He has an Architectural degree from McGill University (1986) and a Master’s Degree in Real Estate Development from Columbia University (1992).Henry Yu | Dr. Henry Yu is an Associate Professor of History, and the Principal of St. John’s College, UBC. He was the Project Lead for the id="mce_marker".17 million “Chinese Canadian Stories” public history and education project (2010-2012). Currently, Yu and his research team are completing a project on Chinese and First Nations heritage sites along the Fraser River corridor, and he serves as the Co-Chair for the Legacy Initiatives Advisory Council for the Province of British Columbia overseeing legacy projects following its historic apology in May 2014 for BC’s history of anti-Chinese legislation. Between 2009-2012, he was the Co-Chair of the City of Vancouver’s project, “Dialogues between First Nations, Urban Aboriginal, and Immigrant Communities” and in 2012 received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of his community service and leadership.Gordon Price | Gordon Price is the director of The City Program at Simon Fraser University. In 2002, he finished his sixth term as a city councillor in Vancouver, B.C. He blogs on urban issues with a focus on Vancouver at Price Tags. In July 2013, he received the President’s Award at the annual meeting of the Canadian Institute of Planners “in recognition of an outstanding lifetime contribution to education and professional planning in Canada.” MODERATORStewart Burgess | Stewart is an intern architect in Vancouver with Bruce Carscadden Architect. In just a decade of practice, BCA has designed and executed numerous building types with an emphasis on public and community recreation projects in the Lower Mainland and across Canada. Outside of this practice, Stewart is interested in public space activism, heritage and city building. He was part of the team that created Vancouver's first crowd-funded parklet on Commercial Drive and serves as a director of the Vancouver Public Space Network and Heritage Vancouver. Stewart is a graduate of the UBC Master in Architecture program.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Heritage Vancouver
Date created: 2015-04-16
PANELISTSJulie Schueck | Julie Schueck has been the Heritage Planner for the City of New Westminster in British Columbia since 2007and has been a heritage consultant since 1991. She has a Bachelor of Arts (History) from the University of British Columbia, a Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies (Architecture) and a Masters of Environmental Design Studies (Heritage Conservation) from the Technical University of Nova Scotia (now Dalhousie University). Her experience includes municipal heritage planning, heritage policy work, heritage management and strategic plans, research, analyses, heritage registers, statements of significance, and heritage rehabilitation projects. She is a founding member of the BC Association of Heritage Professionals.Pete Fry | Pete Fry is a 25-year resident of Strathcona and the Downtown Eastside. A impassioned advocate for neighbourhood, livability, and heritage: Pete has worked and spoken on issues of preservation, affordability, community, and transportation. Pete formerly served as chair of the Strathcona Resident's Association, as a community representative on the City's controversial Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan, and helped to organize a multicultural festival celebrating Strathcona's storied diversity and history as part of the City's 125 Celebration. In 2014, Fry received over 46,000 votes as an underdog Green Party candidate for Vancouver City Council, running on issues of affordability, heritage and empowering communities as partners in urban planning. Pete and his family live in one of the city's oldest houses, a 110-year old Victorian in the heart of Strathcona.Clinton Cuddington | Clinton Cuddington, a graduate of the UBC School of Architecture, is the founding principal of Measured Architecture Inc., an award-winning full-service architectural firm specializing in high quality, high performance modern buildings. Measured Architecture creates buildings that are stimulating to occupy and are fundamental to their surroundings. From its inception in 2007, Measured has demonstrated an ability to craft considered, quality projects. In order to support the professional work, and put into practice what Measured preaches, Clinton remains involved with volunteer work, sitting on a number of Advisory Design Panels and other public bodies; he is active as an AIBC Professional Representative for the First Shaughnessy District Advisory Panel, a guest academic lecturer and Thesis Advisor/Guest Critic at the University of British Columbia.Helen Cain | Helen Cain is a professional planner specializing in policy, public engagement, new development and heritage. She is Vice-Chair of the Heritage Society of BC and a Senior Planner at the City of Victoria where her past responsibilities have included Heritage Conservation Areas in their award-winning Official Community Plan, 2012. She is the author of the policy paper “Heritage and Sustainability in Community Planning” on the environmental, economic, social and cultural value of preservation, and a Cascadia Green Building Council report connecting heritage and green building practices. She was consultant planner on City of Vancouver heritage projects in historic Japantown and Mount Pleasant, and is a past Heritage Vancouver Board member. Helen is passionate about place making through new design and retaining historic fabric. Alec Smith | Together with Nick Sully, Alec Smith founded SHAPE Architecture in 2007. SHAPE has undertaken numerous heritage revitalization projects in Vancouver’s Strathcona neighborhood in which revitalization of historic buildings is combined with modern laneway infill. This unromantic approach to urban density reflects a conviction that careful urban design and planning can greatly enrich existing historic districts. SHAPE’s work suggests modern and historic buildings can coexist and enrich one another by creating a considered ensemble in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Alec is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture teaching design and theory. In the summer of 2011 Alec served on the jury of the American Architecture Awards. MODERATORHelen Phillips | Helen is a consultant and researcher with a strong background in urban planning, heritage conservation and environmental sustainability. She trained as an urban planner in the UK, has qualifications in urban design and a PhD in heritage conservation. She previously worked as a researcher and lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK, where she taught on urban planning, sustainable development and heritage conservation courses. She has published a variety of work on heritage and environmental sustainability. Her past consultancy projects have included working on a substantial heritage register update in Europe. Helen serves on the Board of Directors for Heritage Vancouver.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Heritage Vancouver
Date created: 2015-02-27