Mohammed Rafi Arefin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. Drawing on urban political ecology and environmental justice, science and technology studies, and discard studies, his research and teaching are focused on urban environmental politics with a specific focus on housing and sanitation. His work appears in the journals Antipode, Progress in Human Geography, and the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. He recently received the American Association of Geographers Glenda Laws Award for his “outstanding research on political ecologies of urban waste in the global North and South and for his unwavering commitment to environmental and climate justice”. Rafi Arefin and Geraldine Pratt are the co-leads of the Housing Justice in a Climate Emergency project at the Centre for Climate Justice. This project looks at the intersections of housing justice and climate justice, understanding the impacts of extreme weather on housing (in)justice in British Columbia.

Jemima Baada is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at UBC. Her work uses a gendered lens to examine how diversely situated individuals and groups are affected by climate change, development processes, health inequalities and migration in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and other parts of the world. She leads the Climate Migration Research Group at the UBC Centre for Migration Studies. The Climate Migration research group is dedicated to addressing the complex and multifaceted challenges posed by climate-induced migration. As global climate change continues to reshape migration patterns, the group emphasizes the importance of advancing comprehensive research, informed policy analysis, and effective community engagement.

Brenna Bhandar is an Associate Professor at Allard Law School at the University of British Columbia. Brenna’s research and teaching broadly lie within the fields of property studies and legal theory, spanning the disciplines of property law, critical theory, colonial legal history and critical race feminism. Her book Colonial Lives of Property: Law Land and Racial Regimes of Ownership was published in 2018 with Duke University Press, and the co-edited book (with Rafeef Ziadah) Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought was published in 2020 with Verso. She has published widely in various leading academic journals.

Glen Coulthard is a member of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation and an Associate Professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Glen has written and published numerous articles and chapters in the areas of Indigenous thought and politics, contemporary political theory, and radical social and political thought. He lives in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories. Glen’s book, Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (2014) received critical acclaim. His co-edited book, Recognition versus Self-Determination: Dilemmas of Emancipatory Politics, was released in 2014 by UBC Press. He and Dr. Dory Nason were also featured contributors to the groundbreaking anthology, The Winter We Danced: Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement, which was released to great acclaim in March 2014.

Jessica Dempsey is an Associate Professor and Associate Head of Undergraduate Programs in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. Her research and teaching focus on environmental politics and political ecology, considering how environmental politics
is shaped by and shapes economics, science, culture, history, gender, racism, colonialism, social movements and more. Her current major research projects focus on 1) developing a political economic explanation of extinction, centered on an investigation of Canadian wildlife, and 2) examining dominant, increasingly economic and financial approaches to conservation. Her research is in dialogue with diverse methodologies and literatures, including political ecology, feminist political economy, economic geography, science studies, and green finance.

Avery Everhart is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, and a Co-Founder and Distinguished Fellow of the Center for Applied Transgender Studies based in Chicago, Illinois. She teaches geographic information science through the lens of social and spatial justice at UBC Geography. Improving the life chances of trans people animates her research and she draws upon her transdisciplinary training across the humanities and the social, spatial, and health sciences. She has published in journals ranging from Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy to Social Science & Medicine, and Journal of Biomedical Informatics to Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Epidemiology. Dr. Everhart’s most recent work focuses on how data, statistics, and misinformation shape the conditions in which trans lives are led.

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson is a reporter and writer covering food systems, climate, disinformation, and plastics and the environment for Canada’s National Observer. His ongoing investigations of the plastic industry in Canada won him a Webster Award’s nomination in environmental reporting in 2021. He was also a nominee for a Canadian Association of Journalists’ award for his reporting on disinformation. Marc has previously written for High Country News, the Literary Review of Canada, and other publications on topics exploring relationships between people and their social and physical environments.

Rueben George is Sundance Chief and a member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation (TWN). After working as a family counsellor for twenty years, he became manager of the TWN’s Sacred Trust initiative to protect the unceded Tsleil-Waututh lands and waters from the proposed Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. Over the past decade, he has travelled across the world and
built alliances with Indigenous people fighting for water, land, and human rights, and has become an internationally renowned voice for such issues. His book (with Michael Simpson), It Stops Here: Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People, is a compelling appeal to prioritize the sacred over oil and extractive industries, while insisting that settler society honour Indigenous law and jurisdiction over unceded territories rather than exploiting lands and reducing them to their natural resources.

Gastón Gordillo is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. His current ethnographic research focuses on grassroots activism against deforestation by agribusiness in the Gran Chaco region of Argentina. He has published on place and place-making, rubble and ruination, the racialization of space, the affective materiality of space as terrain, and the spatiality of violence and insurrections. His most recent book is Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction (2014, Duke University Press), which won Honorable Mention for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. His book Landscapes of Devils: Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco (2004, Duke University Press) won the American Ethnological Society Sharon Stephens Book Prize. He is currently completing a book entitled “Here Comes the Horde: The Long Siege of White Argentina.”

Peter James Hudson is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. His research interests span the history of capitalism, white supremacy, and U.S. imperialism; the intellectual and political-economic history of the Caribbean and Black world; and the global history of Black radicalism and anti-imperialism. He is the author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (2017), an acclaimed, pathbreaking study examining the role of Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, and other, lesser-known US financial institutions as the engine powering the expansion of US finance, militarism, and racism into early twentieth century Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Panama. Peter’s current projects include a global history of “racial capitalism,” and an intellectual and political history of Pan-Africanism.

Jarrett Martineau is nêhiyaw and Denesųłiné from Frog Lake Cree Nation and a creative multi-hyphenate and leading voice in Indigenous music, media, and cultural production. He has worked extensively across the arts in music, radio, television, and digital media in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Berlin, and New York. His academic research explores the role of art and creativity in advancing Indigenous resurgence and decolonization at the intersections of art, media, technology, and social movements. Jarrett is currently Curator-in-Residence at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC where he presents concerts, events, and public programming including the Indigenous-led festival ʔəm̓i ce:p xwiwəl (Come Toward the Fire) and the acclaimed EXP Concert Series. In addition to his curatorial work, Jarrett is the creator, host, and producer of Reclaimed, the multiple award-winning, and first-ever Indigenous music program on CBC Music and CBC Radio, heard across Turtle Island (North America) on SiriusXM and Native Voice One: the Native American Radio Network.

Bernard Perley is Maliseet from Tobique First Nation, New Brunswick. He is the Director of the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia. His monograph Defying Maliseet Language Death: Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and Identity in Eastern Canada (Nebraska 2011) shifts metaphors of “language death and extinction” toward metaphors of “language life and vitality”. His ongoing writing, research, and teaching integrates language, landscape, and identity to enhance Indigenous language revitalization. His personal cartoon series Having Reservations explores humor as a means of healing historical trauma associated with centuries of colonial oppression of Indigenous peoples of North America. His published series Going Native (in the professional publication Anthropology News) is a critical reflection on Anthropology history, contemporary practice, and disciplinary future.

Geraldine Pratt is Canada Research Chair in Care Economies and Global Labour and Professor in the Geography Department at UBC. Her research focuses mainly on labour precarity, global migration and new geographies of care. She has a long history of working in multiple modalities of inclusive scholarship and co-production of knowledge, including the media of film, art installation, and theatrical performance. Her book with Caleb Johnston (Migration in Performance: Crossing the Colonial Present, 2019) describes the travels of our testimonial play, performed in Vancouver (2009), Berlin HAU1 (2009), Manila (PETA, 2013; in collaboration with Migrante International, 2014), Whitehorse (2015), and Winnipeg (2019). In addition to her work with the Housing Justice in a Climate Emergency project, she has been involved with collaborative research with migrant organisations on temporary foreign worker programs and critical assessments of new geographies of care for aging persons, including outsourcing and automation. She and Rafi Arefin are the co-leads of the Housing Justice in a Climate Emergency project at the Centre for Climate Justice. This project looks at the intersections of housing justice and climate justice, understanding the impacts of extreme weather on housing (in)justice in British Columbia.

Sherene Seikaly is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her book Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2016) explores economy, territory, the home, and the body. Her forthcoming book, From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine tells a global history of capital, slavery, and disposession. She is the Editor of Journal of Palestine Studies, Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UCSB, co-editor of the Stanford Studies Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Culture Series, and co-editor of Jadaliyya.

Astra Taylor is a writer, organizer, documentarian, and co-founder of the Debt Collective. She is the author of The People’s Platform (2015), which won the American Book Award, and the recent books Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World Changing Idea (co-authored with Leah-Hunt Hendrix, 2024) and The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (2023). Taylor regularly writes for publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times, she is an advisor to Lux Magazine, and she sits on the editorial board of Hammer & Hope.

Alberto Toscano’s recent book Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis sets out a theoretical and historical inquiry into the politics of authoritarianism and their links to the racial, geopolitical and gendered crises of capital. He also maintains an abiding interest in artistic efforts to represent or ‘map’ racial capitalism, and in the revitalisation of a critical theory of political action informed by anti-colonial and anti-racist thought – as evidenced in his recent collection of essays Terms of Disorder: Keywords for an Interregnum. Alberto also edits Seagull Essays and sits on the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory. He is a columnist for the magazine In These Times.

Liv Yoon is an Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology at UBC. Her research is at the intersection of climate change, social inequities, and health, with a focus on community engagement and participatory methods. Her PhD training in social sciences and socio-cultural kinesiology informs her to think about bodies as sites of injustice, provoking thought about how some bodies are considered more ‘dispensable’, and in turn, rendered more vulnerable to climate-related risks. Her research considers taking climate change as an opportunity to challenge the status quo and promote structural changes that alleviate social inequities that both led to, and are exacerbated by, the climate crisis. Prior to joining UBC, she worked in public service as a policy analyst at Health Canada’s Climate Change and Health Office. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Earth Institute and Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, where she worked on projects related to climate and environmental justice, household energy insecurity, just transition, extreme heat, and health.