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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.   

Roots for Resilience

Inspiring an ecosystem of change in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.

Voices from Jasper, Year 1

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

Piikani Stories of Resilience

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.

Monitoring Change – Inspired by the Piikani Winter Count

Bringing Blackfoot values to the forefront in monitoring environmental change.

Voices from across British Columbia’s Interior

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

Climate Resilience and the Nama Peoples of South Africa

Interdependence with the land makes Indigenous peoples particularly vulnerable.

Fire and Ice in the Region of Wood Buffalo, Canada

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

Building Regional Capacity for Climate Adaptation

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

Bison & Climate Change in Alberta’s North

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

Laura Stewart

Board Member

Laura Stewart is the Community Wildfire Resilience Coordinator with Forsite Fire, supporting communities across Canada with wildfire risk assessments, mitigation planning, and program delivery. She has more than a decade of experience advancing wildfire resilience at Indigenous, municipal, provincial/territorial, and national levels. Previously, Laura served nearly eleven years as Alberta’s Provincial FireSmart Specialist, leading community, WUI, neighbourhood, and Home Ignition Zone programs, coordinating funding, and partnering with communities and fire services across the province. She has also served as Board Chair with both the Partners in Protection Association (FireSmart Canada) and the Community Wildfire Resilience Association of Alberta.

 

Sara Walsh, PhD

Board Member

Sara Walsh, PhD, 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

Alison Criscitiello, PhD, is an ice core scientist and high-altitude mountaineer who explores the history of climate and sea ice in polar and high-alpine regions using ice core chemistry. Alison’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. Alison 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. She 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.