Board of Directors
President
Kaitlin Kish
Katie is an Associate Professor in the Shannon School of Business at Cape Breton University and lecturer of Ecological Economics for the Haida Gwaii Institute at the University of British Columbia. She applies her background in complex systems thinking and ecological economics to research on production, labour, and open knowledge commons.
Vice President
Shaun Sellers
Shaun is a PhD student with Leadership for the Ecozoic at McGill University.
Officer
Chaya Kapoor
Chaya Kapoor is an experienced spatial analyst with a past history in quantitative research. She received her Master’s in Environmental Studies (MES) degree from York University in 2022, where she investigated the use of spatial data to improve the Ecological Footprint methodology. Chaya has served on the board since 2022, contributing to the most recent student academy and biennial conference. Her interests are and continue to be in the practical application of ecological economic principles through policy making, community organizing, and broader social movements.
Officer
Megan Egler
Megan is a postdoctoral fellow with the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems (IESVic) at the University of Victoria. Both her academic work and her policy-oriented consulting work deal with labour and justice in energy and mining and the cultural politics of energy transition. She is a past board member of the International Society for Ecological Economics and has been a member of CANSEE since 2019
Officer
Geoff Garver
Geoffrey Garver teaches environmental courses at McGill University and Concordia University in Montreal and coordinates law and governance research for the Leadership for the Ecozoic program. He is on the Steering Committee of the Ecological Law and Governance Association (elgaworld.org) and is active in the international degrowth movement. Geoff completed his PhD (Geography) at McGill and has a B.S. (Chemical Engineering) from Cornell University, a J.D. from Michigan law School and an LL.M. from McGill. From 2000-2007, he was Director of Submission on Enforcement Matters at the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (www.cec.org), following 13 years of public service with the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a federal District Court judge in Maine. Geoff is author of Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis (2021) and co-author of Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy (2009) and has written many articles and book chapters. Geoff grew up in a Quaker family in Western New York and is on the Board of Trustees of the Quaker Institute for the Future.
Officer
Julie Lafortune
Secretary Treasurer
Madhu Kanji
Advisor
Sophie Sanniti
Sophie is currently the Ecological Economics intern at the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. She holds a Ph.D. in Ecological and Social Sustainability at the University of Waterloo, where her work employed a critical ecofeminist frame to problematize some of the gendered assumptions in ecological economics research and policy proposals. Sophia is particularly interested in exploring the implications of a degrowth imperative for Canadian care workers in the household. She holds a B.E.S. from UWaterloo in Environment and Business studies, and a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University which she completed in partnership with E4A and CUSP.
Advisor
Truzaar Dordi
Truzaar is an assistant professor at the University of York’s Department of Environment and Geography. His research uncovers the interconnected and complementary roles industry, policy, and capital markets play in contributing to both climate instability and solutions to climate change. Prior to joining the advisory committee, Truzaar served on the board from 2019 – 2023, supporting CANSEE on partnerships, engagement, communication, and strategy. Truzaar currently serves on the departmental leadership team as the Director of Partnerships and Engagement, and is the program lead for a Master’s in Sustainable Business, Environment and Society.