Dr Diana (Dee) Lewis (she/her), a member of Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia, is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Indigenous Environmental Health Governance, Department of Geography, Environment & Geomatics at the University of Guelph in Ontario. She is also Director of the IndigenERA Lab (https://www.indigenera.ca/).
Her research interests are to foster a wider understanding of Indigenous worldviews and how these worldviews must inform environmental decisions, specifically as Indigenous peoples are impacted by resource or industrial development. She is a strong advocate for Indigenous data sovereignty and Indigenous-led decision making, and she is currently working with Indigenous communities across Canada to develop an Indigenous-led environmental health risk assessment approach.
The Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health 