Tamara is a strong, creative, and entrepreneurial leader with extensive experience across the sustainability and social innovation spheres. She is a queer, white, able-bodied settler living on unceded Coast Salish land - an area known to some as Metro Vancouver. She's a partner, sister, daughter,
auntie, friend, and explorer.

She has 20+ years of adult education experience and has designed and delivered courses, programs, and other custom engagements all around the world.

In her current role as CEO at the Academy for Sustainable Innovation, she works to build leadership capacity to advance climate action in Canada. Tamara's favourite pastimes include LEGO facilitation, pumpkin carving, and group costumes.

Tamara Connell