OUR TEAM.

TAHNEE PRIOR.

Tahnee Prior currently leads Women of the Arctic’s research; including on the gender dimension of human and climate-induced pollution in the Arctic, and the gender dimension of Arctic observing systems.

Tahnee is also a Research Associated at the Marine and Environmental Law Institute of the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University.

Her work centres on global environmental governance, complex systems theory, and Arctic and oceans governance. Previously, her doctoral research focused on the role of law in maintaining or hindering resilience in social-ecological systems, like the Arctic.

Tahnee is an avid ice hockey fan, coffee drinker and can often be found starting dance parties.

GOSIA SMIESZEK-RICE.

Gosia Smieszek-Rice, PhD, is Deputy Secretary of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), where she coordinates work on climate-related initiatives, and a Research Fellow at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

Her work centers on Arctic and international environmental governance, with a focus on science-policy interfaces, science diplomacy, and Arctic scientific cooperation.

Gosia co-chairs the ICARP IV Arctic Research Cooperation and Diplomacy Research Priority Team, represents Norway on the International Arctic Science Committee's Social and Human Working Group, and sits on the steering committee of the North Pacific Arctic Conference.

Gosia loves wild, open spaces, trail-running, diving and everything ocean.

SOHVI KANGASLUOMA.

Sohvi Kangasluoma is a senior researcher at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, where she researches northern seas and their environmental, geopolitical, and societal changes. Her doctoral research focused on the entanglements of Arctic oil and gas with gender, emotions and environment.

Sohvi recently published her first non-fiction book, “Then We Sailed North”, which chronicles her and her partner’s sailing journey from Alaska through the Northwest Passage to Greenland.

Sohvi lives on a sailboat. She loves lighthouses, all things cold and Netflix.

CONTACT US.

gosia@genderisnotplanb.com

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