CURRENT MEMBERS

Emma Bugg (she/her) is an Interdisciplinary PhD candidate at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Emma’s thesis explores how the burgeoning field of Sustainability and the Arts (SATA) can be more clearly conceptualized and structurally supported to strengthen its scholarly coherence and transformative potential. Emma sits on the Research Working Group for Mass Culture, a Canadian arts research organization, as serves as Co-Lead of the Environmental Resilience Research Cluster of The Arts Impact Partnership. Emma also works as the coordinator of the Sustainable Nunatsiavut Futures Art Collective, a collective of artists enhancing research activities through Inuit-led artmaking, and as a Research Assistant on Ărramăt, a research project supporting Indigenous health and wellbeing through Indigenous knowledges of environmental stewardship.

Laura (she/her) is completing her Master of Information at Dalhousie University, where she is learning all sorts of interesting ways to connect people with information. She brings a meandering background in mathematics and libraries, a passion for blending nature and craft, and experience helping communities learn about and advocate for the health of their local environment. Laura joined The Arts Impact Partnership's Environmental Research Cluster in 2026, where she is analyzing how artists can better understand and track the effects of their work on the environment. This research will support the development of an environmental impact framework for the arts.

My role: Kristina is conducting a qualitative research study into the impact of arts organizations on the environmental sector by examining their governing statements.

Description: Kristina Adonia Forrer is an undergraduate student at Dalhousie University, pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Environmental Science. Passionate about blending these disciplines, she’s currently an intern with the Arts Impact Partnership, where she examines how arts organizations can promote environmental resilience. Through her qualitative study of Canadian organizations, Kristina aims to highlight the role of the arts in fostering positive environmental change and collaboration between creative communities and environmental initiatives.

Evelyn is an undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Science with a Minor in Sociology and Social Anthropology of Social Justice and Inequality at Dalhousie University. The integration of sustainability and the arts has been a point of interest for Evelyn as the arts often are a catalyst for social change. 

Evelyn worked on the Sustainability and the Arts (SATA) project as a student research intern during the winter of 2026 alongside Emma Bugg and is continuing to work on this project as a USRA summer student in the summer of 2026. Evelyn will be assisting with qualitative data analysis mostly focusing on content analysis from the SATA data base.  This is assisting in the emerging field of SATA within scholarship.  

Evan Platt-Goldstein (they/them) is joining this group from McGill University, where they completed a Bachelor of Arts in Environment and Development. They are pursuing a Master of Environmental Studies at Dalhousie, where they will be focusing on sustainability education. Their previous work has looked at the intersections of environment and speculative fiction, biodiversity of fish and coral in Barbados, community engaged experiential learning, and urban agriculture. They bring with them an interdisciplinary background, as well as a passion for storytelling and the outdoors. 

Amber is an undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and Marine Biology with certificates in Science Communication and Environmental Impact Assessment at the University of King’s College/Dalhousie University. She has enjoyed previous interdisciplinary studies within science and is eager to expand that work into the arts. Amber is a volunteer summer student who is assisting Laura Chandler with a bibliometric analysis of Sustainability and the Arts (SATA) literature.