Building an economy that provides for life

Carly Checholik is the Food Security Project Coordinator with the Gitmaxmak’ay Nisga’a Society and the North Coast Innovation Lab for summer 2020. She is currently completing her master’s of science in anthropology at the University of Toronto. Coming from academia, my master’s research has focused on evaluating top-down government responses to high food costs in remote northern communities. This summer, I will be working on tackling food insecurity in a remote North Coast community from the bottom up. Through my internship as a Food Security Project Coordinator with Ecotrust Canada’s North Coast Innovation Lab (NCIL) and Gitmaxmak’ay Nisga’a Society, an Indigenous non-profit organization serving Nisga’a citizens in Prince Rupert, I will put my academic knowledge into practice, while continuing to ...