Erin Alexiuk is a senior PhD candidate in the School of Environment, Resources, and Sustainability at the University of ݮƵ.Since joining WISIR as a Research Associate in 2014, Erinhas played an instrumental role supporting the incubation of several early-phase social innovations. Throughout her graduate career, Erin has worked with visionary leaders to help operationalize innovative ideas, catalyze change, and realize impact. While at WISIR, she has applied her academic background in complex systems thinking and social innovation to long-term projects with two ground-breaking Indigenous organizations: the and .