Alex Pysklywec
MA, MPL
(he/him)
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Alex is a trained Geographer (MA) and Community Planner (MPL). He has more than 8 years of research experience specific to planning and social policy and 3 years of planning experience, including working for the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation as a Land Use Planner. Alex has worked in the domains of health, social, and environmental policy analysis and development, as well as land and natural resources management, regional planning, and planning with Indigenous peoples.
Using a critical, intersectional, and equity-centred lens, Alex is adept at collecting and analysing qualitative and qualitative data. He is skilled at using different tools, such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), to present data to help guide needs assessments and priority setting for social and environmental policies and programs. He approaches all this work from an environmental justice and social equity perspective, and he strives to ensure that the projects he is involved in contribute to making people’s lives and communities more just and equitable places.
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Alex was born and raised in Calgary, Treaty 7 territory, but now divides his time between Ottawa-Gatineau, on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe Algonquin, and Calgary.