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Julie Segal

Senior Manager, Climate Finance | Environmental Defence

finance, climate, sustainable finance, ESG, just transition, climate justice, climate related financial risk

Roomana Hukil

Ph.D. Candidate | Department of Political Science, McMaster University

Climate, Water, Sustainability, Critical International Relations, International Relations, Social Movements, Transnationalism, Globalization

Ellen Berrey

Assistant Professor, Sociology | University of Toronto, Mississauga

Law, Race, Diversity, Culture, Policy, Organizations, Environmental Sociology

Rachel Thomas

Sessional professor, researcher | Concordia University

Sociology, medicine, fat studies, obesity, social determinants of health

Dr. Kino Zhao

Assistant Professor | Simon Fraser University

philosophy of science, statistics, data, measurement, machine learning