Lindsay (she/her) is an Adjunct Professor in UBC's Department of Educational Studies, and a Ph.D. candidate and Public Scholar at the University of British Columbia. Her doctoral research has focused on the transformative potential of public sector innovation labs. Lindsay is also the manager of the City of Vancouver Solutions Lab (SLab), where for the last four years she has designed and facilitated social innovation labs and a community of practice. Lindsay has worked in the sustainability field for about 20 years in both the private and public sectors. Lindsay is most excited about co-creating a wholehearted community of creative intrapreneurs that together are working to change the stuck structures and mindsets that hold some of our most complex and urgent urban challenges in place. Lindsay is a white settler living in xwesam (Roberts Creek) in the beautiful unceded shíshálh swiya (Sunshine Coast, BC).

Maggie is the Co-Chair of the Indigenous Community Planning (ICP) master’s concentration at UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP). Maggie is a community-engaged scholar who seeks to advance a better understanding of Indigenous sovereignty as it is expressed outside the Canadian courts. Her current research projects and teaching focus on Indigenous planning, Indigenous-state relations and decolonization efforts happening within Canadian cities. Maggie was born and raised in northern Ontario and is of mixed ancestry. She is Italian, French and German from her Mother’s side and a status member of Wikwemikoong Unceded Territory from her Father’s side. Maggie is most looking forward to learning about equity and decolonization efforts happening at different scales in several cities across Canada.

Mumbi is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and a Social Planner in the Social Policy Division at the City of Vancouver. She has worked on grassroots social and environmental justice organizing, anti-racist education and cross-cultural collaboration with immigrant and other communities across North America. Mumbi’s research focuses on the uptake of sustainability in higher education policy and practice, examining roles of various actors, including historically marginalized groups in the enactment of sustainability. At the City of Vancouver, she works to imagine how municipal governments can address the challenges of rising social and environmental inequities. Mumbi is looking forward to learning how to create compassionate spaces for imagining new possibilities and ways of relating to one another.

Kyla Pascal is a Métis, Black woman born and raised in Amiskwaciwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Edmonton, Alberta). Over the years Kyla has worked with a number of non-profit organizations focusing on anti-oppression, advocacy, and community-building. Her experiences and interests are centred around Indigenous solidarity, sustainability, community health, and food justice. The goal of her work is to build more resilient, just, and healthier communities. She currently works at Indigenous Climate Action, is a member of the Indigenous art collective, nipahimiw, and is a first-year graduate student with the School of Community and Regional Planning at UBC. She is most excited about/looking forward to seeing the various approaches that the different cities apply to the learning journey.

Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President, Academic Affairs at UBC at The University of British Columbia. Moura’s interests lie in rethinking, refining and rebuilding collaborative spaces at the intersections of academia, government, business and civil society.  Her teaching and research focus is on strategic design, designed leadership and an emerging Policy Studio that helps students and multi-sectoral organizations learn to use design processes and tools. Moura has been Deputy Minister of the B.C. Ministry of Advanced Education, B.C. Commissioner of Pacific Coast Collaborative, Dean of UBC’s Faculty of Land and Food Systems, and Associate VP, Academic Programs at UBC Okanagan. Her book, Designed Leadership, was published by Columbia University Press in July 2017. 

Lily is a mixed woman of Black/Louisiana-Creole, German and Irish ancestry, and from the homelands of the Hopewell, Adena, Myaamia, Shawandasse Tula, and Wazhazhe Maⁿzhaⁿ peoples (Cincinnati, OH). She has worked on various social and sustainability initiatives through non-profit and grassroots organizations, namely with youth experiencing homelessness, Afro-descendent and Indigenous women entrepreneurs, and rural community development practitioners in Ecuador, the Midwest of the U.S. and now BC. Her work draws on community engagement, action research, somatics and human-centered design approaches. Lily’s current interests include biocultural conservation, collective memory and placemaking, and the 'how' of social transformation — from the ways in which we come together to make decisions and address complex challenges, to the ways in which we learn, deepen our capacities, and communicate knowledge. She holds a Masters in Community and Regional Planning from UBC. Lily is most excited about helping to shape the container for this learning journey and capturing the learning experience of teams from across the country. 

Rob is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC). His primary area of research studies meaningful articulations between classrooms and communities, especially as influenced by the social philosophies of pragmatism. A book on the topic was published in 2014. Recent publications include “Adaptive Education Applied to Higher Education for Sustainability” (International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education); “Conceptions of Sustainability within the Redesigned K-12 Curriculum in British Columbia, Canada: Mapping a Disputed Terrain” (Journal of Sustainability Education) and; “Green jobs for the disadvantaged: an analysis of government policies in British Columbia” (Journal of Environmental Planning and Management). Since 2016, he has researched and designed the first ever sustainability cohort in the teacher education program in UBC and also launched a Masters’ program in Education for Sustainability, which partners with the City of Vancouver on the implementation of sustainability, health, housing and planning policy.