Dana has worked across multiple sectors — non-profit, corporate and academic — all with the goal to advance sustainability in Canada by working with a wide range of people and organizations.

Previously, she worked as Manager of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation, a partnership between Intact Financial and the University of Waterloo to prepare Canadians for the impacts of climate change. There she led operations, strategic initiatives and partnership management in the centre’s scaling stages and she also led research on the mental health impacts of flooding.

Dana has also worked as a Sustainability Analyst at Sun Life Financial and as Operations Coordinator at Green Economy Canada. Dana has an M.E.S. in Sustainability Management and a B.E.S. in Environment and Business from the University of Waterloo. She has been recognized as a Clean50 Emerging Leader (2018), named the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association Leader of the Year (2017) and Corporate Knights’ Top 30 Under 30 (2016) and received the St. Paul’s Young Alumni Award (2016).

In her spare time Dana can be found reading, biking, and hiking in her new home of Nova Scotia.

Albert is a leading environmental voice in Unama’ki Cape Breton. He is advisor to and is a highly regarded spokesperson for Mi’kmaq natural resources and environmental issues.

Albert advises and lectures internationally on a wide range of topics:

• the environment

• tribal consciousness collaboration with non-Aboriginal society

• traditional healing, traditional teachings

• Mi’kmaq orthography and language

• First Nations’ vision of science

He is the creator of the “Two Eyed Seeing” concept–Balancing Traditional Aboriginal Knowledge and Contemporary Science.

Albert works to further positive work within Mi’kmaw communities, to seek preservation and understanding of cultural beliefs and practices among all communities and to effect a strong vision for his people and the future.

Brady Reid is a PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo studying natural resource management, community engagement, governance and decision-making. Brady also coordinates and teaches in the Certificate in Sustainable Rural Communities program at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University where he advocates for broader campus-community engagement in western Newfoundland (and beyond) to support community priorities and values in transitioning to a better future.

Edmund Yirenkyi is a Ph.D. student at the Grenfell Campus, Memorial University studying Trans-disciplinary Sustainability. His research is on the role of philanthropy in financing climate change mitigation and adaptation in Atlantic Canada. Edmund is also assisting with the coordination of activities for the Atlantic Canada Hub of PhiLab.