Emerging Environmental Leaders Forum : Delegate

Association of American Geographers : Member

American Anthropology Society : Member

Conference of Latin American Geographers : Member

Connecting Environmental Professionals : Member

War and wildlife: linking armed conflict to conservation

Islands of Governmentality: Rainforest Conservation, Indigenous Rights, and the Territorial Reconfiguration of Guyanese Sovereignty

Gillian holds a PhD in Geography from McGill University. Her thesis focused on changing access to natural resources among indigenous and mestizo communities in the Peruvian Amazon in response to rapid urbanization. As part of this work, she collaborated with government and non-profit organizations to revise community-based fisheries management frameworks in the western Amazon.

Gillian’s past experience includes applied research on land and natural resource access, management, and protection with rural and indigenous communities in Latin America, North America, and the Middle East, as well as at international forums such as the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). She also has three years of experience working at non-governmental organizations on community and public engagement in Canada and internationally, and has worked and published on climate change mitigation, forest and wildlife conservation, and indigenous and rural peoples’ rights and well-being.

Indigenous communities

Traditional land and resource use

Resource Management

Migration

Vulnerability & well-being

French

Spanish

The Firelight Group

Theo L. Hills Award

Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement

Joseph Armand-Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship

Researcher, Traditional Knowledge and Use Studies 

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