Team
Firelight’s friendly and enthusiastic team brings together a wide range of expertise and backgrounds.
Directors

Steve is Anishinabe/ Saulteaux and a member of the Ebb and Flow First Nation from Manitoba. Since 1998… Read more

Ginger is a Director of the Firelight Group. She works as a negotiator and implementation coordinator… Read more

Alistair’s work over the past decade has focused on designing, managing, conducting, and critiquing environmental impact assessments… Read more

Rachel is a citizen of the Tr’ondek Hwech’in First Nation from the Yukon Territory. She has been a researcher in First Nation communities… Read more

Pamela Perreault is a member of Garden River First Nation in Ontario. Her academic and
consulting careers have taken her across Canada… Read more
Staff

Makiko is Firelight’s CFO and Finance Manager. Originally from Japan, she moved to Canada in 2007 and has been working and studying… Read more

Holly is a Senior Planner with Firelight. She has a background in community, land use, and strategic planning and expertise in … Read more

Sarah has a diploma in Library and Information Technology. She has a background as a records manager and administrator providing support in the military, private, and public sectors…Read More

Aibakyt is a Junior Researcher at the Firelight Group supporting the Traditional Knowledge
and Use Studies and Indigenous Planning teams… Read more

Catherine is an Junior Researcher with The Firelight Group and is supporting the Mapping and GIS team. Born and raised in Okotoks, Alberta… Read more

Etienne is a Junior Researcher with the Traditional Knowledge and Use Studies Team. He holds a MSc in Integrated Water Resources… Read more

Lucas is a junior researcher with The Firelight Group, supporting the Socio-economic team. With him, he brings direct experience working for an Algonquin First Nation… Read more

Colby is a Junior Researcher with the GIS team. He is a citizen of the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan and currently located in Montréal, in the unceded territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations.… Read more

Waverley is a Senior Planner and Ecology Researcher with Firelight, supporting the Ecology and Indigenous Planning teams. She is a settler with… Read more

Amanda is a Junior Researcher with The Firelight Group supporting the Regulatory Team. She holds a Master of Environment specializing in… Read more

Mauricio (he/him) is an Ecology Researcher at The Firelight Group supporting the Ecology team. He is original from Colombia South America and a settler in the traditional… Read more

Alexis is Anishinabe/Saulteaux and is a member of the Skownan First Nation from Manitoba. Alexis is a Researcher… Read more

Julia Conzon is a GIS Program Manager with Firelight’s GIS Team. She is a second-generation settler with Italian heritage… Read more

Michelle is a Junior Planner with Firelight with two years of planning experience. She has contributed… Read more

Christine is a Senior Researcher with the Firelight Group, and works with the Indigenous Planning team… Read more

Katy is an Environmental Assessment Specialist with the Firelight Group. Katy is experienced and well-versed in… Read more

Sabrina is the Communications Coordinator at The Firelight Group and one of the organizers of the Indigenous Mapping Workshop. She graduated… Read more



Aislinn is a Junior Researcher with the Firelight Group supporting the Health and Socio-Economic Research Team. She completed her MA in… Read More

Nicole (she/her) is a Junior Researcher supporting the Ecology team at Firelight. She is a settler with ancestral roots in Scotland, Ireland and… Read more

Tosh is a Senior Researcher with The Firelight Group, working with the Health and Socio-Economic teams. He is a settler and visitor on the traditional territory of the WSÁNEĆ… Read more

Anne is a Junior Ecology Researcher with the Firelight Group. Anne conducts research and applies geomatics … Read more

Jess is a registered professional biologist and Senior Researcher at Firelight. She works with the Ecology team, providing support for… Read more

Claudia is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta with family roots in the Young’s Point Métis settlement in Manitoba, and is also of Chinese and Polish ancestry… Read more

Dasha (she/her) is a Junior Researcher supporting the EA/Regulatory team at Firelight. She is a second-generation settler with roots in Ukraine, currently living… Read more

Dede is excited to be joining the Firelight Group as our new Executive Assistant. She’s a member of the Gitxsan First Nation in Northern B.C. but grew up enjoying all… Read more

Neha is a Junior Researcher with The Firelight Group supporting the Regulatory and Environmental
Assessment teams… Read more

Janelle Kuntz is Senior Researcher at the Firelight Group. She is a settler-Canadian with German and English… Read more

Elizabeth is a Researcher with the Firelight Group supporting the Traditional Knowledge and Use Team… Read more

Hayden is a Junior Researcher with The Firelight Group and is supporting the Ecology team. Raised in… Read more

Sejal is a Researcher for the Traditional Knowledge and Use Studies and Indigenous Planning teams. …Read more

Tara Lamothe is Métis, Jobin family, from the Lesser Slave Lake area in Treaty 8 territory in northern Alberta. She holds an Honours B.Sc. … Read more

Ugo (he/him) is a Researcher with the Firelight Group. He works on policy analyses, project assessment, and the negotiation and implementation… Read more

Susan Leech (MSc, RPBio) is a senior technical lead within the Ecology team, and provides support to the Regulatory team. She specializes in … Read more

Molly is a Research Director with Firelight. She holds a doctorate in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of British Columbia… Read more

Alexa is a Junior Researcher with The Firelight Group supporting the Regulatory Team. She is a settler with German, Finnish and English ancestral roots… Read more

Emily is a euro-Canadian settler with Swiss Alsatian heritage raised on the Haldimand Tract, and is grateful to live today in the Territory of the… Read more

Jackson is a junior researcher with The Firelight Group. He works with the Regulatory, Socio-economic, and… Read more

Jill is a Junior Researcher on the Regulatory team. She is a settler of mixed European descent, born, and currently living, on the traditional territories… Read more

Julian Morrison is a Senior Health Researcher with the Firelight Group. She is Mi’kmaw from Ktaqmkuk (NL), lived in K’jipuktuk (Halifax) for… Read more

Mathew holds a BSc in Geography and an MA in political ecology. Mathew’s masters research in political ecology investigated the causes of social conflict… Read more

Rylan is a member of Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Manitoba. He is part of the GIS team at Firelight and works out of the Vancouver office. Born and raised… Read more


A geography graduate from Trinity College Dublin, Guy also holds a MSc in Environment, Culture, and Society from the University… Read more

Karleen is a Junior Researcher with The Firelight Group in the department of socio-economic research. Karleen spent time in Kelowna, BC… Read more


Andre is the Office Coordinator for The Firelight Group, based out of the Vancouver office. He has an extensive background in Information Technology, Information Systems, and Inventory Management… Read more

Trefor is a Senior Regulatory Advisor with Firelight. Trefor comes to Firelight with more than 20 years of combined experience related to… Read more

Marie received her education at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), through the Asokan Project… Read more

Jonathan is a Senior Researcher with the Traditional Use Studies team, where his primary responsibilities are community-based work… Read more

Anuja is a Researcher with the Firelight Group, working closely with the IBA team. Originally from Nepal, she moved to Canada… Read more

Aly is a Junior Researcher at the Firelight Group supporting the Indigenous Health team. She is a settler currently residing on the traditional and unceded lands… Read more

Erin Tomkins is a health researcher and opportunity development manager with the Firelight… Read more

Tanya is a Researcher with the Ecology Team. She enjoys working at the intersection of conservation, community, research, policy, and education… Read more

Sonja Voyageur is the Human Resource Manager of Firelight, and is a proud member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in Treaty 8 Territory…. Read more

Chris is a Researcher with the Ecology Team. He has experience providing technical support to communities in environmental impact assessment Read more

Grant is a Junior Researcher with The Firelight Group and is supporting the Regulatory Team. He was born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario… Read more

Kassandra Woods is a Senior Health Researcher with The Firelight Group. She is a settler and grateful visitor on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm…. Read more

Kyle Vermette (L.L.B.) is a Métis Nation lawyer and negotiator from Regina, Saskatchewan, and Special Advisor to The Firelight Group. He was a founder of CLASSIC… Read more
Interns

Emily (she/her) is a Research Intern with the Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBA) team at The Firelight Group. She is a settler of Czech and Russian… Read more

Sarah (she/her) is a Research Intern supporting the Ecology team at The Firelight Group. She is currently living on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm… Read more

Sophie is a Human Resources Intern at the Firelight Group. She is a settler on the unceded territory of the Okanagan (Syilx) People… Read more

Kennedy is a member of the Mikisew Cree First Nation in Alberta. She is a Research Intern with the… Read more