Keira completed her PhD at the University of Ottawa co-supervised by Michael Robidoux and Courtney Mason. Keira is now an Assistant Professor at Lakehead University in the School of Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism. She completed her Bachelors Degrees (Environmental Biology), Physical and Health Education, and Master’s of Environmental Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Her Master’s degree used a lens of political ecology to complicate the global narrative of the System of Rice Intensification in Nepal’s Terai. Her doctorate was on Indigenous food sovereignty in northern Ontario. She questions the ways in which structures of power and systems of knowing shape economic, ecological, political, community, and personal relationships to land, and by extension, our food. She explores these dynamics through community-led food initiatives in northern Ontario focusing on increasing traditional (i.e. moose, fish, geese) and alternative (i.e. home gardens) food access.