Nafisa Sarwath
Research Associate, Indigenous & Northern Communities
About
Nafisa is a Research Associate II with the Indigenous and Northern Communities team at the Conference Board of Canada. She has a significant background in Indigenous focused research, community land use planning, mapping, and youth empowerment. Through her doctoral research she has developed a series of community-based research projects with the Cree Nation of Wemindji (in the Eeyou Istchee/James Bay region of Northern Quebec).
Past Work Experience
In her professional career, Nafisa worked as a traditional land use researcher and geomatics expert with the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke (MCK). She has also worked as a researcher with the University of Waterloo, and as an intern with the Centre for Natural Resource Studies in Bangladesh.