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Staff
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Prior to becoming GVAT lead organizer and executive director, Chet Phillips worked in fields as varied as sustainable agriculture, creative writing, collaborative conservation planning, university instruction, and the social science of alliance building and conflict resolution.For the 8 years prior to his moving to Victoria with his partner and their 3 young children, his work focused on organizing university students to create positive institutional change in Tucson and develop institutional relationships with other community organizations. This work led to a long-term, mutually beneficial partnership between the University of Arizona, City of Tucson, and the Tohono O'odham First Nation at their San Xavier Cooperative Farm. In all his work, he is guided by a saying from one of his mentors: “An individual can resist injustice, but it takes a community to do justice.”
Action Research Team (ART) Co-Leads
Affordable Housing ART
Our Affordable Housing ART co-leads are changing and will be posted soon!
Mental Health and Addictions ART
Chris Bullock (he/him), a co-lead for the Mental Health and Addictions ART, taught English and writing at the University of Alberta for 30 years. He has lived experience with mental health issues, and is dedicated to the practice of inclusive and democratic communication
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Other Mental Health ART Co-Leads
Ruth Schrieier Stefan Sargent Hazel Meredith Edward Buttersworth |
Climate Change ART
Jane Welton (she/her) had the good fortune to be born in BC, the most biodiverse province in Canada, into an outdoorsy family.
Her favourite form of activism is through music. She has sung with Aya, Musaic and Resistance Rising, groups formed to sing the world into change. Jane has worked for women’s rights, peace, the environment, labor rights, indigenous rights, LGBTQ2S+ rights and more. She is grateful for the vision of people like Naomi Klein who have woven all these different issues together as climate justice. |
Eric Doherty (he/him) is a transportation planner, and an active member of GVAT member group Climate Justice Victoria. Eric one of the co-leads of GVAT’s Climate Action Research Team. In his consulting business, Ecopath Planning, Eric specializes in improving community health and livability, as well as reducing climate pollution. Some of Eric’s writing on transportation and climate justice is published in the National Observer.
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Other Climate Change Co-Leads
Gertie Jocksch |
Board of Directors
Our new Board of Directors was elected in December of 2020. The bios and pictures of our new board will be up shortly!
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