Stories

A single story has the power to change our hearts and our minds. Our collective stories, if shared, have the potential to change our futures. 

Honouring lived experiences through story, art, and connection, one year after the fire.

Reducing risk to future disasters and adapting to climate change will depend very much on our perception of what it means to be resilient – personally and culturally.

Bringing Blackfoot values to the forefront in monitoring environmental change.

Reducing risk to disasters and being climate resilient begins with perceptions and attitudes about ourselves and our capabilities to adapt.

Interdependence with the land makes Indigenous peoples particularly vulnerable.

Thematic learning to help citizens address the wicked problem of climate change.

Better understanding the risks of changing fire regimes in the context of climate change and developing innovative practices for adaptation.

The Willow Lake Métis Nation partnered with TRI on the Bison & Climate Change project.

Dr. Sara Walsh

Board Member

Dr. Sara Walsh is a disaster risk reduction and climate resilience specialist with more than 15 years of experience spanning Canada, Nepal, the Middle East, and North Africa. Until November 2025, she served as Thematic Lead for Climate and Resilience with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), where she supported Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to strengthen their climate and risk reduction work across the region. Sara currently works as a freelance consultant with the United Nations, governments, and humanitarian organizations on recovery, risk governance, and community-based resilience. She teaches at a Canadian university and holds a PhD in Disaster Risk Reduction. Her work emphasizes anticipatory action, equity, and bridging research with practice to shape more resilient and sustainable futures.

Alison Criscitiello

Board Member

Ice core scientist and high-altitude mountaineer Alison Criscitiello explores the history of climate and sea ice in polar and high-alpine regions using ice core chemistry. Criscitiello’s work also focuses on environmental contaminant histories in ice cores from the Canadian high Arctic and the water towers of the Canadian Rockies. In 2010, she led the first all-women’s ascent of Lingsarmo, a 22,818-foot peak in the Indian Himalaya. Criscitiello has earned three American Alpine Club (AAC) climbing awards, the John Lauchlan and Mugs Stump alpine climbing awards, as well as the first Ph.D. in Glaciology ever conferred by MIT. Criscitiello is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Canadian Ice Core Lab at the University of Alberta. She is the co-founder of Girls on Ice Canada.