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Team: Socio-Economic Research
PhD Political Science
Email: evgeniia.sidorova@thefirelightgroup.com
Location: Otos-kwunee (Métis), Moh’kinstsis (Blackfoot), Wicispa Oyade (Îethka Nakoda Wîcastabi), Guts’ists’i (Tsuut’ina nation) | Calgary | Treaty 7 Territory, Territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy, the Îethka Nakoda Wîcastabi First Nations, ᖹᐟᒧᐧᒣᑯ (Siksikaitsitapi), Homeland to the Northwest Métis
Region: Alberta
Evgeniia (Jen) Sidorova is a Research Analyst with the Socio-Economic Research team at The Firelight Group. She identifies as Sakha from Yakutsk, Sakha Republic (Russia), where her people are traditionally cattle and horse breeders. She is currently based in Moh’kinstsis (Calgary, Alberta) in Treaty 7 Territory.
Jen holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Calgary, where she studied the incorporation of Indigenous Knowledge into Arctic politics, as well as a Master of Arts from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, focused on comparative resource extractive regimes in the Arctic region. She has worked with Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada as a Policy and Research Analyst and has consulted for organizations including Indspire and the Vancouver Island Human Rights Coalition. Jen also served as a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Canadian Northern Corridor Research Program at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy.
