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Aimee Nygaard

Mar. 11

Written By Meghan Gillespie

M.A.

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Aimee Nygaard (MA) has 10+ years professional experience working across health and environmental sectors in fundraising + grants strategy, public outreach, community engagement, research, and project management + evaluation. She has an MA in Sociology from the University of Toronto.
A fifth generation settler, born in the beautiful territory of the Nuxalk First Nation (Bella Coola), she is passionate about building strong partnerships and innovative programs that can advance both ecological and human health. Her academic contributions have been published in peer-reviewed journals including: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science; Wellbeing, Space + Society; Journal of Water + Climate Change; International Journal of Mental Health + Addiction.
She has worked and volunteered with Gathering Voices Society since 2015, supporting the program development and evaluation, research goals, knowledge translation, and fundraising activities of the organization. Previously, Aimee was the Senior Manager, Strategy, for the BC Women's Health Foundation.
Contact Aimee at: aimee.nygaard@gatheringvoices.ca

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william@gatheringvoices.com
(778) 874-9231

Based in British Columbia, Canada

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Dr. Jonaki Bhattacharyya is working for Gathering Voices Society to evaluate the effects of cultural burning on ungulate (hooved animal) behaviour.

Dr. Bhattacharyya joined us in spring to for our spring burns. She monitored post-burn ungulate behav

Beauty of the Land

Gorgeous shots of both Xeni Gwet’in and Yunesit’in land this spring.

Learning from the land…
Masters students taking soil samples and analyzing burns.

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Elders from Yunesit’in sharing traditional knowledge with Victor Steffensen of @firesticks.alliance.network. Our work could not exist without this sharing of knowledge through generations.

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Reconnecting with Traditional Practices:
Letting the land lead, Victor Steffensen discovered the benefits of using Aspen Bark as a fire starter for our cultural burns.
Instead of relying on modern tools such as drip torches, this technique incorpor

Unhealthy Forest Fuels Wildfires

These photos showcase how logging and mono culture leads to unhealthy forests. Reduced
biodiversity and increased flammability is prime fuel for
devastating wildfires.

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Members of the Gathering Voices Society who do not identify as Indigenous are grateful to live, work, and be in relation with people from across many traditional and unceded territories, covering all regions of British Columbia. We are honoured to live on this land and are committed to reconciliation, decolonization, and building practical long-term solutions to support the economic, ecological, social and cultural priorities of Indigenous communities.