Catherine & Grahame

Catherine Nolin is a Professor of Geography and Chair of the Department of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. In 2020, Catherine was elected Chair of the Conference of Latin American Geography (CLAG) for a two-year term. CLAG is the premier geographic organization for geographers engaging in research in Latin America and the Caribbean and works to foster research, education, and service related to Latin American geographical studies. Catherine is a long-time insurgent researcher and social justice advocate who has been grappling with the afterlives of the Guatemalan genocides for more than twenty-five years.

Twitter: @cnolin / catherine.nolin@unbc.ca / www2.unbc.ca/catherine-nolin

Grahame Russell. Since 1995, Grahame has been director of the Canada- and US-based not-for-profit organization Rights Action. Grahame is also an adjunct professor in the Geography Program at UNBC and a non-practicing Canadian lawyer. Rights Action works mainly in Honduras and Guatemala in support of community-based land, environmental, human rights defenders who are resisting multiple harms and violences (including killings) related to different sectors of the global economy, including mining, hydroelectric dams, African palm, sugar cane, bananas, coffee, tourism, and the garment industry. Rights Action carries out education and activism work in the US and Canada focusing on how our governments and companies - and the US military - often contribute to and benefit from human rights violations, environmental harms, exploitation, corruption, and impunity in these countries.

Twitter: @RightsAction / info@rightsaction.org / www.rightsaction.org