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Presentation by Georgia Lloyd-Smith at the CICADA Conference in Montreal, 02-05-2019
CICADA-ICCA Consortium Meeting of Indigenous and Research Partners from Canada, the USA, Australia and New Zealand, May 1st-3rd.
Presentation by Georgia Lloyd-Smith, Staff Lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law.
“RELAW – Revitalizing Indigenous Law for Land, Air and Water”
Biography
Georgia Lloyd-Smith is part of West Coast Environmental Law’s Indigenous Law and Marine Protection teams. She works on the RELAW Project (Revitalizing Indigenous Law for Law, Air, and Water) and on co-governance and Indigenous marine protected and conserved areas. Lloyd-Smith believes in the power of human connection to affect change, and sees law as an essential component of this work. She spends her thinking time in spaces where cultures, values, and ideas converge, in particular in the fields of Indigenous, environmental, health, and human rights law. She graduated from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University in 2014 and articled at the Environmental Law Centre at University of Victoria as well as at West Coast. While articling at West Coast, Lloyd-Smith worked with the Indigenous Law Research Unit researching Secwepemc laws related to environmental governance and decision-making. She also spent a summer in Fort McMurray, Alberta working as a legal intern with the Mikisew Cree First Nation in the heart of the tar sands.