Brenda Fitzpatrick, PhD (UBC), is an anthropologist whose research focuses on the interplay of language, power, place relationships, and institutions in environmental conflict.  Her MA in Peace and Conflict Studies emphasized the role of culture in conflict and conflict transformation, which she observed first-hand, working with peacebuilding and development programs in Kenya/South Sudan, the Philippines & Indonesia, and facilitating  with Soliya, an online inter-cultural dialogue program. As a former member of a Community Justice Initiatives program in northern BC, she appreciates the opportunity for further involvement in traditional restorative justice, and is particularly enthusiastic about VARJ’s Environmental Restorative Justice initiative, that extends restorative justice approaches and values to relationships among peoples, place, and planet. Brenda is grateful to have lived most of her life on the unceded and traditional territories of the sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations.