MABRRI is excited to introduce our current Student Research Assistants (RAs) and Visiting Student Research Assistants (VSRs) of Vancouver Island University. Our Student RAs support all aspects of project work and we could not do what we do without them! Supporting VSRs provides opportunities for collaborative research while strengthening global partnerships.
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Maddy is a Geography major at Vancouver Island University (VIU), entering the final year of her bachelor’s degree. Her academic and research interests focus on the impacts of climate change on weather systems and other natural processes. Throughout her degree and work with MABRRI, Maddy has become proficient in GIS and remote sensing techniques and was recently awarded a scholarship from Esri Canada for her skills in cartographic design. She currently contributes to both the MABRRI and MABR teams, supporting a diverse range of projects and initiatives.
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Licentiate in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) – Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability (NUPEM/UFRJ) (2017). She is currently a professional master’s student in the Environment, Society, and Development program (ProASD/UFRJ). She conducted research in Science Education at the Laboratory of Education and Scientific Dissemination (LABEDIC) through the Institutional Teaching Initiation Scholarship Program (PIBID). She also has practical experience in Environmental Education, working as a gardening and horticulture teacher in early childhood and elementary schools in Brazil.
She develops comparative research between Canada and Brazil, analyzing public policies related to school feeding programs and the integration of agroecology into the daily life of urban schools. Her work seeks to contribute to the promotion of sustainable eating habits, school-based food supplementation and the creation of green schools. Her practice is grounded in the perspective of OtherKnowledges (CiênciasOutras), which recognizes the inseparability of humans, nature and the cosmos, proposing decolonial paths of (re)existence and the production of knowledges rooted in the ancestral relationship with the Earth.