Vanessa de Koninck

Vanessa is an applied social scientist who has spent 20 years working in the complex arena of intercultural collaboration, research, and advocacy and engagement. She has extensive experience working in international contexts, including twelve years working with Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory of Australia, and four years as a rural community development volunteer in Papua New Guinea. Her academic roots are in anthropology, with degrees from the University of California, and her research and publications have focused on the political ecology of indigenous engagements with the state, landscape anthropology, and the co-management of parks and protected areas. She is currently the Executive Director of the Edmonton Centre for Race and Culture, which works to promote and support individual, collective, and systemic change to address racism and encourage intercultural understanding.

Vanessa de Koninck
Core Lab Team Member