Maria C. Correia

ISEA 2024

Maria Correia is a PhD Candidate in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, where her research focuses on cross-cultural collaboration on water stewardship in the Syilx Okanagan territory. Her work on Waterways centred on researching Syilx indigenous-led innovations on water stewardship and Indigenous-settler adaptive co-management. Before entering the PhD program, Maria had a long career in international development which took her to 40 countries across four continents. During this period, she focused on gender, social development and conflict and development. Aleksandra Dulic is an internationally recognized media artist and scholar working at the intersections of multimedia and live performance with research foci in computational poetics and cross-cultural media performance.

ISEA 2022

Maria Correia is a PhD candidate and Killam Scholar in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Program at the University of British Columbia. Her current research focuses on cross-cultural adaptive governance of complex social-ecological systems in the Okanagan valley of British Columbia, Canada.