Using collaborative planning to change our relationship with place and each other to create more united, resilient, and self-sufficient communities

About

Bryce hopes to transform and build the capacity of settler systems to support co-design, co-existence, and collaboration with Indigenous communities in the context of sustainability and resiliency planning. He's interested in understanding how we can appropriately reconcile different ways of knowing in which the strengths of Indigenous and scientific perspectives can work together ("Two-Eyed" Seeing). Effective outcomes include providing greater recognition, voice, control and access in planning efforts for communities, enabling eco-cultural revitalization, partnership development/steps toward reconciliation, and improved social and environmental outcomes.

To conduct this work, Bryce draws upon Indigenous Inquiry and living systems/regenerative thinking along with experience supporting the Shiwiar and the Kayapo in the Amazon. Further, he utilizes his diverse background in non-profit, consulting and local government with projects ranging from strategic consulting, master planning, resiliency and fire management, biomass development, Indigenous allyship and support, microgrid analysis, energy efficiency, comprehensive community planning, and conservation planning.

Currently, Bryce is in the Indigenous Community Planning concentration of the University of British Columbia's Master’s in Planning program. He continues to support ACASJAE, an organization that represents the Shiwiar community of Juyuintsa, with various planning and organizational initiatives. In addition, he recently supported the Tribal relations and governance work of the Healing & Reconciliation Institute in California.

A metro Detroit native, Bryce resides in Vancouver where he enjoys hiking, surfing, longboarding, meditation, yoga, photography, music, and graphic design.