Maeve Lydon

Program Director – 

Greetings! I am honoured to live and work on Coast Salish territories as an uninvited guest. I am the daughter of Irish immigrants from Galway, (another wild west coast) in Ireland. Over the past 15 years I have been focused on community-based and driven partnerships for social and environmental justice with higher education at UVic via the former Office of Community Based research, with the Environmental Law Centre https://elc.uvic.ca/ and nationally with CBRCanada and CFICE – Community Campus Engage Canada https://carleton.ca/communityfirst/. I love the focus on ecological restoration and decolonization that LLab is committed to : supporting Indigenous resurgence  as part of connecting to and healing ourselves, communities and the amazing natural world we are part of. … “Find a way to make beauty necessary, to make necessity beautiful ‘ – (Anne Michaels)​

Jam

Jam Ramjattan

Engagement Coordinator –

Jam is an educator, community worker, & lover of tacos. He graduated with a B.A. Justice Studies at Royal Roads University. He recently completed his M.A. research on the Pedagogy of Space: Deconstructing Colonial Identities with the Cree Nation in Eeyou-itchee.