About the Course Developers
Course Developers
Connecting for Climate Change Action is a collaborative effort between the following course authors, instructional designers, and media and technology specialists.
| Katrina Moser, Co-Creator, Subject Matter Expert
Associate Professor, Geography & the Environment |
Katrina is a Geography & Environment professor whose research focuses on climate and environmental change. Katrina believes the time for change is now, but how do we do it? She is privileged and excited to be part of an amazing team of educators developing a course that draws on Western and Indigenous sciences, providing a framework for students to address climate change and create sustainable futures. |
| Serena Mendizabal, Research Assistant.
Cayuga-Ngabe Panamanian, Six Nations of the Grand River, MA Geography & the Environment – Indigenous Health Candidate |
Serena believes diverse, intersectional perspectives should be centred in climate change education and solutions. By bringing together Indigenous and EuroWestern sciences, using a Miqmaq framework called Two-Eyed Seeing, she hopes the course creates a holistic understanding of climate change and ways to address it through innovative and Indigenous-informed solutions and actions |
| Ramon Sanchez
E-learning Technology Specialist |
Ramon enhances online learning engagement using a wide variety of tools and technologies. Dream big, he told our team, and we’ll scale back – anything is possible! Ramon was drawn to Connecting for Climate Change Action not only because of its importance, but also found the way it highlights diverse perspectives is appealing. |
| Aamir Aman
Instructional Designer |
With a passion for pushing eLearning to its limits, Aamir brings a wealth of experience in curriculum design and technology integration, intercultural education, and inclusive learning. He is interested in the use and impact of digital learning technologies in classrooms, boardrooms, and living rooms. Spending his whole life in various educational environments has cultivated an unquenchable curiosity in the learning process for Aamir. |
| Sara Mai Chitty, Curriculum Advisor, SME
Michi Sagig Anishinaabe, Alderville First Nation; Indigenous Curriculum & Pedagogy Advisor, Office of Indigenous Initiatives |
With a keen eye for detail and opportunites to unlearn, Sara Mai, along with Serena, braids Indigenous and decolonial pedagogies into the course. She hopes learners will conjure not only visions of equitable and sustainable futures, but practical ways to make it happen! She is passionate about teaching, storytelling, and transforming educational experiences for all learners. |
| Beth Hundey, Co-Creator, Subject Matter Expert | Beth is an educational developer at the Centre for Teaching and Learning and an Assistant Professor in Geography & Environment. Co-creating this course allows her to bring her passion and expertise as an environmental change researcher and expert in online education. Teaching courses on environmental change and geography for 10 years, she found fostering hope alongside climate literacy to be a worthy challenge. She is delighted to give students a chance to enhance their climate literacy and empower them to make, and demand, changes to address the climate crisis. |
| Hawlii Pichette, Artist and Illustrator | Hawlii Pichette of Urban Iskwew is a Mushkego Cree (Treaty 9) urban mixed-blood artist and illustrator who currently resides in London ON. Born and raised in the small community of Cochrane, located in northeastern Ontario. Her work is deeply influenced by her culture, upbringing, and reflects the beautiful integral interconnections of the natural world.
Her practice includes illustrations, digital artwork, painting, murals, and beadwork. She graduated from Fanshawe College’s advanced Fine Art program with Honors in 2017, receiving the Satellite Award exhibition. Hawlii went on to complete a one-year residency in the Emerging Artists Studio Program at The Centre for Creativity (TAP) in London Ontario, where she had her first solo show ‘Road Sign Languages’ in April 2018. More recently, she was one of three female artists selected to create murals in downtown London’s prominent Market Lane. She is also known for a series of Indigenous coloring pages that she illustrates and shares on her website. |
| Bridget Koza
Student in School for Advance Studies in Arts and Humanities and Visual Arts at Western University Digital Media Designer, Western University |
Bridget brings her creativity as an artist and media designer to the art and design of Connecting for Climate Change Action. |
| Kosuke Maeda
Student in Psychology at Western University Digital Media Designer, Western University |
Kosuke brings his experience with videography, editing and animation to Connecting for Climate Change Action. |
| Gelila Ayele
Student in Business Management at Western University Digital Marketing Assistant, Western University |
Gelila brings project management and creativity to Connecting for Climate Change Action. |
Course Experts
We are fortunate to have leading experts lend their voices to Connecting for Climate Change Action.
| Dr. Diana (Dee) Lewis
Sipekne’katik Mi’kmaq First Nation in Nova Scotia ssistant Professor, Department of Geography, Environment & Geomatics at the University of Guelph |
Dr. Diana (Dee) Lewis, a member of the Sipekne’katik Mi’kmaq First Nation in Nova Scotia, is an Assistant Professor appointed to the Department of Geography, Environment & Geomatics at the University of Guelph. Dr. Lewis’ research interests are to foster a wider understanding of Indigenous worldviews, and how Indigenous worldviews must inform environmental decisions. She is a strong advocate for Indigenous data sovereignty and Indigenous-led decision-making. Dr. Lewis is Member of the Advisory Council on Impact Assessment to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, is a co-author with the Assembly of First Nations and other Indigenous scholars and community experts on the first Indigenous Resilience Stand-Alone Report: National Climate Assessment. She has written several reports and articles addressing issues of climate change: Climate change impacts on Atlantic First Nations Drinking Water, Wastewater Systems, Fisheries and Aquaculture for the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs; Stop ringing the alarm, it is time to get out of the building and A radical revision of the public health response to environmental crisis in a warming world: Contributions of Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous feminist perspectives in the Canadian Journal of Public Health Special Issue: Moving on IPCC 1.5°C: Exploring promising public health research, policy, and practice responses to environmental crisis in a warming world. Dr. Lewis co-developed and delivered a Community-Based Water Monitor Training Program focusing on climate change impacts on Atlantic First Nation drinking water and wastewater systems for First Nation Water Quality Technicians in the Atlantic Region. |
| Dr. Lewis Williams
Ngāi Te Rangi descent Associate Professor Indigenous Studies and Geography & Environment, Western University |
Lewis Williams is an interdisciplinary, Indigenous, feminist scholar-practitioner of Ngāi Te Rangi descent. Her scholarship and practice centre on Indigenous resurgence and reconciliation as key means of addressing Indigenous disparities and human-planetary wellbeing. Growing up in Aotearoa / New Zealand and initially qualifying and active as a social worker and community developer during the tumultuous 1980s which saw the explosion of Maori, Feminist and Queer activism in Aotearoa, Lewis has worked and lived within diverse communities and regions within Aotearoa / New Zealand, Turtle Island / Canada, and Australia. Lewis is the Founding Director of the Alliance for Intergenerational Resilience (AIR), a Canadian-based international not-for-profit organization whose aim is strengthening human-ecological resilience through the resurgence of Indigenous knowledges and lifeways within all peoples. She is also an Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies Program and Department of Geography and Environment, University of Western Ontario, Turtle Island / Canada. |