Darcy Riddell

Dr. Darcy Riddell is a fifth generation British Columbian, living with her two children in Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam and Squamish territories. She has worked with environmental initiatives, capacity-building organizations, philanthropy and Indigenous-led organizations to advance justice and protect nature, specializing in convening, transformative learning, multi-stakeholder engagement, policy advocacy, and scaling innovation. She is a contributing author to the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment. Previous roles include BC Program Director at Makeway, Director of Strategic Learning with McConnell Foundation, and Program Director at Hollyhock Leadership Institute. Her work is inspired by early involvement in ground-breaking campaigns and multi-stakeholder Great Bear Rainforest Agreements, which enshrined First Nations governance, protected areas and ecosystem-based management in 6.4 million hectares of the Pacific coast. She holds an MA in Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness (CIIS) and a PhD in Social-Ecological Systems, focused on the scaling impact and transformative dynamics in the Great Bear Rainforest model (University of Waterloo).