Mary-Kate Craig

Mary-Kate Craig is a mother, entrepreneur, researcher, consultant, and passionate community builder whose work is related to transforming how we live on the Earth. She lives in an urban intentional community in the Treaty lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit and the traditional territories of the Attawandaron, Anishinnabe and Haudenosaunee now known as Guelph, Ontario. She is a starter and a catalyst who has worked in not-for-profit, private sector and academic settings. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Guelph using a participatory action approach to investigate: the aspirations, barriers and enabling conditions by which Indigenous-led nature-based climate solutions might occur in Canada. Through this work she helped to plant the seeds of what has now emerged as the Restore, Assert, Defend (RAD) Network. She is a managing partner of Anwaatin Inc, a company that works with Indigenous stewards on the front lines of climate change action, energy projects and waste management solutions. She holds an MSc in Biology (University of Windsor) and a BSc in Environmental Science (University of Plymouth, UK). She is the co-founder of an urban intentional community called the Junction Village Guelph which has incubated a community land trust to acquire, responsibly develop and steward residential properties.