Director | Adana Mahase-Gibson
Adana is a mission-driven bricoleur who enjoys working with NGOs and the non-profit world. She is a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) with a Humanities background (BA in History). Her specialty is a transdisciplinary approach called One Health, which looks at wicked problems that involve human, animal, and environmental health. She is from Trinidad & Tobago and moved to Canada with her enthusiastic family. Adana has been working in international development, with issues around climate change, poverty reduction, and sustainable development for the past 20 years. She has worked with international and regional development agencies and corporate, academic, and civil society sectors in the Caribbean region. Adana currently works on applied research projects in the Caribbean and partners in Eastern and Southern Africa, supporting One Health and climate change initiatives. She is particularly passionate about community empowerment, women in STEM, neocolonialism and tackling racism and sexism.