Dr. Leila Harris is a Professor in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability and also in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. Professor Harris is a settler scholar living and working in unceded Coast Salish territory, with family ancestry from Mediterranean and European regions (she/her pronouns). A socio-cultural and political geographer, her work connects political ecology, nature-society studies, and issues of socio-cultural difference, inequality, and politics.