About

Maia Wikler is PhD student, climate justice organizer, and writer. Her most recent work appears in Teen Vogue and VICE. In June 2019, as a member of The North Face New Explorers Arctic Expedition, Maia reported from the Arctic Refuge on the impacts of the ongoing environmental and human rights crisis from the fossil fuel industry and climate change. She is directing a short documentary film for The North Face in the Arctic on the intergenerational, women-led fight to protect the Arctic Refuge. Maia was recently selected as a National Geographic Early Career Explorer 2020 to document cross-border salmon stories and raise awareness about the threats to wild salmon from mining in Northern British Columbia.

The progression of her academic work, and as a writer, filmmaker and community organizer, has compelled her toward focusing on the intersectionality of climate justice and wielding storytelling as a tool for justice.

Maia is currently a PhD student in Political Ecology at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on memory as a tool of resistance and resilience in the face of corporate abuse, specifically related to deforestation and the climate crisis. Maia seeks to connect diverse audiences on issues of climate justice and corporate abuse through dynamic mediums of academia, film, writing and community organizing.