Canadian Association of
Nurses for the Environment
Association canadienne des infirmières
et infirmiers pour l'environnement
Canadian Association of
Nurses for the Environment
Association canadienne des infirmières
et infirmiers pour l'environnement
Dr. Melissa Lem
President · Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
Tara Marsden
Indigenous Sustainability, Reconciliation, Governance·HLIMOO SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS
Tara is from the Lax Ganeda (Frog) Clan of Gitanyow Huwilp of the Gitksan peoples. For more than two decades, Tara has been dedicated to advancing sustainable development and operationalizing free, prior and informed consent for Indigenous Peoples. Drawing on her master’s degree in political science and her upbringing in Gitksan Ayookxw (laws), Tara has worked for a number of First Nations governments, academia, the provincial government, philanthropic organizations and, most recently, for her own nation Gitanyow as Wilp Sustainability Director. In 2021, Tara established Hlimoo Sustainable Solutions to continue her life’s work as an independent consultant in her homelands of the Gitksan people.
Arielle Dougherty
Marketing Consultant·Texas Campaign for the Environment
Arielle is a wife, mother of three and veteran of the United States Army with the 82nd Airborne Division. She is a freelance marketing and hospitality consultant currently in coordination with the Texas Campaign for the Environment to help mitigate the unacceptable expansion of LNG, VLCCs and ammonia production in the Gulf South region. She believes that all people, no matter their race, gender, nationality or locality, deserve their inalienable right to live with clean air and water, without governmental or corporate overreach.
Melissa Lem is a Vancouver family physician who also works in rural and northern communities within Canada, and president of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. As a climate change panellist on CBC Radio’s Early Edition, in-house medical columnist for CBC TV Vancouver and clinical assistant professor at the University of British Columbia, one of her major priorities is knowledge translation.