Dr. Jen Gobby

Credentials

PhD

Biography

Jen Gobby is a settler living on unceded Abenaki territory in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. She is the founder of the Mud Girls Natural Building Collective and founder and research coordinator of Research for the Front Lines. In 2019, she completed her PhD at McGill University and is an affiliate assistant professor at Concordia University in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses at several universities across Canada and is also a public educator, regularly giving presentations and workshops on a variety of topics including climate justice, theories of transformative change, and building stronger social movements through better allyship, collaborations and solidarity. She is the author of the book More Powerful Together: Conversations with Climate Activists and Indigenous Land Defenders.

She currently works with Research for the Front Lines, an initiative that connects grassroots communities and organizers on the front lines of the fight for environmental and climate justice with researchers who have skills and time to offer. Jen believes that research, when done in service to directly impacted folks, can meaningfully contribute to resisting extractive, colonial capitalism and [re]building just, flourishing alternatives.