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Sophia Gregory is a graduate planning student in SFU's MRM program. After completing her undergraduate degree in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at McGill University, her passion for environmental science, community engagement, and sustainable development led her to small-scale farming. Later, as a Pathy Fellow, she co-founded a non-profit on Salt Spring Island, Neighbourhood Farm Schools, that delivers farm-based recreational and educational programs for youth. During her Master’s, she has worked for City of Prince Rupert on developing their first Natural Asset Inventory and has focused her research on the applications of nature-based solutions in rural and remote communities. 

Research Project: Now, in her work with CERi and Ancestral Foodways Collective Society, Sophia looks forward to bridging the spheres of climate resilience, Indigenous food sovereignty, biocultural heritage, and urban ecological stewardship.

Belinda Li is a PhD Candidate with the Food Systems Lab in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at SFU. Her doctoral research examines the factors which enable and inhibit rural community composting in British Columbia from a systems thinking perspective. She has an interdisciplinary background in environmental engineering, sustainable development, and food systems planning.

Research Project: Belinda is working with Tla’amin Nation on background research to support the development of a Nation-led Food Sovereignty Strategy.

Alex Cebulski is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the CLIMB lab at Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of Environment. He received his BSc in Geographic Information Science from Western University and his MSc in Physical Geography from the University of Toronto. He completed his PhD in February 2026 at the University of Saskatchewan, where his research focused on advancing models of snow and energy exchange in needleleaf forests in western and northern Canada. His current research investigates how climate change impacts interconnected ecological, hydrological, and biogeochemical systems using a coupled hydrological-land surface modelling framework.

Research Project: The Impact of Climate Change on Water Security and Aquatic Life Along the Central Coast of British Columbia

This research is hosted by the Central Coast Indigenous Resource Alliance (CCIRA), an Indigenous-led organization established by the Heiltsuk, Kitasoo Xai’xais, Nuxalk, and Wuikinuxv Nations to collectively advance their stewardship responsibilities, inherent rights, and decision-making authority over lands and waters within our territories. The research they have proposed is to better understand future risks related to water security and aquatic life (especially Pacific salmon) along the Central Coast of British Columbia and to support land and marine management decisions.

Kaumadi (Kaum) Kulatilake is pursuing a Master of Urban Studies at SFU. Her professional experience is in front-line food security work, low-barrier employment programs, urban farming, harm reduction, and other trauma-informed approaches to community capacity building and support services. Her academic background in Urban Studies is rooted in her experience working directly with folks experiencing complex challenges or barriers and her desire to understand how urban systems can better support people when they need it most. 

Research Project: The Call to Action Towards Reconciliation on the Sunshine Coast: Exploring and Documenting the syíyaya Reconciliation Movement

The syíyaya Reconciliation Movement is a community-led reconciliation initiative on the Sunshine Coast. The Movement was founded in 2017 through the leadership of Hereditary and Former Elected Chief ?akista xaxanak Garry Feschuk and Sechelt resident Nancy Denham, in collaboration with the shíshálh Nation and the Municipality of Sechelt. The syíyaya Movement is seeking to document their work – currently found in their digital and published archive – and to make their experiences and lessons learned accessible more widely to other communities wishing to learn how to foster reconciliation. The output of this research will be a written guide to community-based reconciliation made available to communities across Canada.