OUR TEAM

Our Team

Kai Chan

Kai Chan is a professor at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. Kai is an interdisciplinary, problem-oriented sustainability scientist, trained in ecology, policy, and ethics from Princeton and Stanford Universities. He was a coordinating author of the IPBES Global Assessment and the UNEP Making Peace with Nature report, co-leading the sections on pathways and solutions.

Maia is the cohost of the small planet heroes podcast and graduated from the UBC ISCI undergrad program in 2024 with a focus in environmental sciences and microbiology focusing in soil sciences.

Samantha Blackwell

Clare Price

Chloë Chang

Kevin Landrini

Lauren graduated from UBC with a degree in Environmental Sciences and International Relations. Lauren is Passionate about interdisciplinary climate solutions and transformative change.

Joshua is a recent graduate of the BSc Honours in Environmental Sciences program at UBC. His focus is in ecology and conservation, where his ultimate goal is to contribute valuable scientific insights that can shape future conservation efforts of threatened species.

Hanaa Punja

2024 UBC Environemntal science undergraduate. Joined cosphere through ENVR430 and later involved in ScionEarthNet. Interested in biodiversity and conservation energy and sustainability engineering

Kevin Landrini is a MSc student at the University of British Columbia currently working on exploring the toxic effects of microplastics on marine life. His interests are plastic pollution, ocean conservation, and climate change mitigation strategies. He has joined CoSphere through a graduate course covering ecosystem services and conservation.

Chloë is a graduate student at IRES UBC with Dr. Joséphine Gantois. Her undergraduate degree in Wildlife Biology & Conservation and Agriculture from the University of Guelph provides the lens through which she works with community-centered conservation.

COLLABORATORS

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Seth Brouwers

Harold Eyster

Gail Hochachka

Paige Olmsted

Seth holds a Masters in Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology degree from the University of Waterloo and is an entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience working with innovation and technology oriented companies. Seth brings value in all aspects of business and all stages of development and growth.

Harold Eyster (PhD) is a Gund Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Vermont where he harnesses interdisciplinary methods to understand relationships among birds, people, and trees in cities.

Rachelle Gould

Rachelle Gould is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work involves social science, the humanities, and ecology. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Vermont. Her research explores the relationship between people and ecosystems and focuses on: (1) environmental values, including Cultural Ecosystem Services and relational values; (2) lifelong and life-wide environmental learning; and (3) how equity, inclusion, and justice permeate environmental issues.

Gail Hochachka is a postdoctoral fellow at UBC, currently studying urban climate action from a transdisciplinary perspective. She has extensive work and academic experience on integrating the human dimensions of climate change response as part of broader, deeper transformations to sustainability.

Paige is a Senior Research Associate at the Smart Prosperity Institute. She has a multi-disciplinary background in biology, environmental policy, and public administration through her work and research at Columbia University's Earth Institute, UNEP, and the Copenhagen Business School. Paige holds a PhD from the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia.

Nancy Kang teaches humanities in the Women's and Gender Studies program at the University of Manitoba. As Canada Research Chair in Transnational Feminisms and Gender-Based Violence, she seeks intersectional, anticolonial, historically informed, creative, and minority-empowered approaches to more hopeful and inclusive environmental futures for all.

Nancy Kang