Alida Oegema Thomas (she/her) is a student in the Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA) program at UBC, focusing on issues of gender, human rights and climate justice in public policy. Alida’s academic and work background includes human rights, conflict resolution (mediation/negotiation), labour relations, international development, and environmental studies. She is passionate about taking an intersectional, gender-plus, and human rights approach in the overlapping areas of gender and climate justice, especially related to forced migration, environmental racism, and development. She is honoured to serve on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Mountain Network, focused on braiding Indigenous ways of knowing and being with Western science in environmental and mountain systems research, and as Chair of the Board of Directors of Flavours of Hope, a Vancouver-based social enterprise working with newcomer and refugee women.