Justine Townsend

Justine Townsend is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, and a Mitacs Postdoctoral Fellow. Her work centers on Indigenous-led conservation, decolonial methodologies, and environmental justice, with community-engaged research across First Nations in British Columbia.

She collaborates with the IISAAK OLAM Foundation and directs the Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas Planning Certificate at Vancouver Island University. Publications in Frontiers in Human Dynamics and Journal of Political Ecology critically analyze reconciliation frameworks, rights of nature, and anti-capitalist conservation.