Cari St. Pierre, Ph. D Candidate - Senior Sustainability Planner

Cari has a background in Community-Urban Planning, Park Planning, Ecology, System Planning, and First Nations Governance, Rights and Title and Inter-Cultural Alternative Dispute Resolution.   The diversity of this experience and training has allowed her to work on Local, Regional, Provincial and National level planning projects with both, First Nations and non-Native communities, Governmental and non-Governmental organizations.  Cari is currently finishing her Ph.D. in Sustainable Planning through the University of McGill, which explores  Overcoming Barriers to Implementing Sustainable Planning in Rural and Remote BC. 

Over the past eight years as a Planner, Cari has worked primarily in the area of sustainable Land Use, Parks, First Nations and Community Planning.  This background has giving her the opportunity to work with many First Nations organizations, such as Union of BC Indian Chiefs, Kwakiutl Territorial Fishery, NAHO and Donna Cona.  In addition, Cari has been very fortunate to have been able to work with and in many First Nations communities in various capacities as a Community Planner.  Some of the communities, she has worked with in BC and the East Coast are, Gwawaenuk, Lekwiltach, Heiltsuk, Oweekeno, Nuxulk, Haida, Secwepemc and Nlaka'pamux and Esgenopetitj First Nations.

Her Governmental Planning experience ranges, from Local Islands Trust, to Urban Municipal, Watershed, and Regional Planning.  This work has included Longrange and Strategic Community plans, Official Community Plans (OCPs), Neighbourghood Plan (NCPs), and Site Level Sustainable Planning, in addition to policy, regulation analysis and cost recover research for Local Governments.  Through her work in the diverse area of Land Use Planning, Cari has worked with environmental NGO's such as Sierra Club and Green Peace; and on Regional processes such as the CCLRMP and NCLRMP; the original CORE tables and processes.  

Cari brings to Sheltair a wealth and diversity and experience in the area of sustainable community planning and project management, with an emphasis on cultural continuity, and resiliency through sustainable planning theory, process, methods, and design.