Dr. Natalie Ban, a Professor at the University of Victoria's School of Environmental Studies, is a marine conservation scientist known for her interdisciplinary approach. Collaborating with First Nations in British Columbia, she integrates social and natural sciences to balance human needs with marine sustainability. Her research encompasses marine conservation, fisheries, protected areas, and spatial planning. Natalie's excellence in scholarship has been recognized by the Royal Society of Canada and the NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship.

Lawrence Ignace, an Anishinaabe PhD candidate with the University of Victoria's School of Environmental Studies, has worked for various governments and organizations, including the Assembly of First Nations and Arctic Institute for Community-Based Research. He has represented Canada at international conferences on sustainable development, intellectual property, and biodiversity. Now based in the Yukon, his work focuses on the intersection of differing ways of knowing in cumulative effects and natural resource management.

Dr. Cinda P. Scott, a marine biologist and educator, directs The School for Field Studies, Center for Tropical Island Biodiversity Studies program in Bocas del Toro, Panamá. Her collaborative leadership and inclusive community engagement have advanced ocean equity and the well-being of coastal communities. Dr. Scott's research examines cultural valuation of mangroves and inequities in natural resource management. She is dedicated to promoting equitable sharing of ecosystem services to support seascapes that sustain all life.

Dr. Max Liboiron (Michif, they/them), a Professor in Geography at Memorial University, develops anticolonial research methods. Their lab, CLEAR, foregrounds humility and good land relations in plastic pollution research. Liboiron has influenced national policy, invented community monitoring technologies, and authored "Pollution is Colonialism" and co-authored "Discard Studies." Elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, they have received the President's Award for Outstanding Research and the Marilyn Harvey Award from Memorial University.

Dr. Sylvia Moore will be facilitating unrecorded sessions with learners in the comprehensive co-management course. This component of the course was added in response to learner feedback for more opportunities to explore our own assumptions and default thinking patterns, unpacking our positionality, reframing our worldview, and become critically conscious of colonial dynamics.

Our learning management system provides access to recordings of our past guest speaker events. Speakers have included Jason Akearok, Derrick Pottle, Dr. Valérie Courtois, Dr. Deborah McGregor, Dr. Sylvia Moore, Dr. Ashlee Cunsolo, and Elder Albert Marshall.