Anna is a PhD student at the University of Ottawa

I am a social scientist and PhD candidate specializing in renewable energy development in the Arctic (Canada and Greenland) through corporate social responsibility and the Environment Social Governance framework while keeping a feminist lens. While my current home university is the University of Ottawa, I obtained my MSc in human geography at Radboud University in the Netherlands and my BA in English language and history at the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne in France. My scholarship therefore is very interdisciplinary and broad in perspective and areas of focus, from white feminism and violence to popular culture and environmental history to Indigenous governance all as specifically applied to the Arctic region. Aside from research, I like fiber arts and hiking!

Why did you join ESAC?

I joined ESAC as a board member a little over a year ago and what drew me to ESAC was the wish I had to become more active in the environmental studies academic community in Canada. ESAC is also a convener of both scholars and practitioners from the private sector and from civil society. This dynamic blend was very appealing to me as well as the possibility to support scientific communication in french, my mother tongue.