Dr. Mimi E. Lam (E-mail) B.Sc. Honours (University of British Columbia) Ph.D. (Dalhousie University) Tel:  (604) 822-3843

Dr. Mimi E. Lam is an Adjunct Professor at the UBC Fisheries Centre and an Associate of the UBC Centre for the Study of Human Evolution, Cognition, and Culture. She researches the human dimensions of fisheries, articulating socio-economic and cultural values in science and policy, as an application of her incipient theoretical work in the evolution of human cognition and behaviour.  As an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico, Department of Biology, she collaborates to research the cultural contexts of human learning, in culturally responsive curricular design, and the evolutionary origins and social construction of traditional ecological knowledge and sense of place.

Mimi serves on both academic and community organizations, locally and internationally.  She is identifying pathways to connect western and indigenous science as the current Ecological Society of America (ESA) Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) Section Chair, ESA Education and Human Resources Committee Diversity Representative, and an Inner Circle member of the SEED Graduate Institute Language of Spirit Dialogues.  Active in cultural revitalization initiatives, she is a contributing member of the Indigenous Education Institute International Advisory Council, American Indian & Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group, and Vancouver Chinatown Society Heritage Building Association.

A Senior Fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program, Mimi explores sustainability of socio-ecological systems in issues of conservation, environmental justice, and social equity.  With a Marine Conservation Initiative grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, she is co-editing a Special Feature for the journal Ecology and Society, entitled The Privilege to Fish.  For the 2009 ESA Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, NM, she is coordinating a symposium, Building Sustainable and Resilient Communities, Locally and Globally, a Sense of Place special session, an Environmental Justice workshop, cultural visits to local Pueblos, and several TEK Awards, applications and nominations for which are invited.

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