Melanie Goodchild

PhD Candidate, Social and Ecological Sustainability and Research Fellow
Melanie Goodchild

Melanie Goodchild is an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) complexity and systems thinking scholar.  She is moose clan from Biigtigong Nishnaabeg and Ketegaunseebee First Nations. Melanie is currently a PHD candidate in  Social & Ecological Sustainability  at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ and is a Research Fellow with the À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Institute for Social Innovation & Resilience.  She is a proud member of the Iron Butt Association riding her Harley-Davidson motorcycle 1000 miles in 24 hours! Melanie is a faculty member with theÌý, the    and is a Scholar Practitioner Faculty member at the University of Vermont's MS and PhD in  .  She is an Advisor to the new Systems Awareness Lab at MIT and she was the founder of the  .  Melanie is an alumna of the IWF Leadership Foundation's    (2015-16 class) sponsored by  Ìýand  .Ìý

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