Émilie Ovenden (SHE/HER/ELLE)

UBCO GRADUATE RESEARCHER (2021-2023)

Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies (Community Engagement, Social Change, and Equity)

University of British Columbia | Okanagan Campus | Sylix Okanagan Nation Territory

Email: emilie.ovenden@ubc.ca

Affiliations at UBCO: Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies.

Research interests: environmental justice, migration, visual anthropology, political ecology, postcolonial feminism, human geography

Émilie (she/her/elle) is a graduate researcher, teaching assistant, and research assistant at UBCO, where she is studying community-based climate adaptation. Her thesis explores forest-based carbon offsetting in community forestry as climate adaptation and focuses on the Cheakamus Community Forest’s (CCF) “conservation economy.” This project is led under the supervision of Dr. Susan Frohlick, and primarily funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – nature et technologies and the British Columbia Graduate Scholarship.

Émilie is combining her interests to create a short documentary complimenting her thesis. Beyond this, Émilie’s undergraduate and CÉGEP degrees provide an important contextual background for her current research. In 2019, Emilie received the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement for her undergraduate work in Global Law and Social Justice at Carleton University. There, she focused on post-colonial feminism in Canada and was an intern and organizer for Scholars at Risk, where she worked to shift policy on immigration pathways for scholars facing academic censorship. Émilie also has a CÉGEP diploma from Dawson College, where she made her first collaborative documentary about development practices in rural Nicaragua.

Education

BGInS: Global Law and Social Justice, Carleton University                         2017-2019

North-South Studies, Dawson College                                        2014-2016