2023 EPt Impact Award Winner
Clarissa is a Registered Professional Planner with expertise in developing and implementing environment and climate change policy, particularly for local government. She specializes in community-scale climate adaptation and has experience with low-carbon resilience, nature-based solutions, and climate risk and vulnerability assessments. Her key skills include facilitation, stakeholder engagement, policy development, and implementation planning.
As a Climate Risk Analyst and Project Manager with Morrison Hershfield, Clarissa is responsible for project management and climate planning on a range of multi-disciplinary climate mitigation and adaptation projects. In Clarissa’s work to date, stakeholder and community engagement, environmental and community stewardship, and Indigenous consultation have been critical success factors. She is also the co-chair of the PIBC Climate Action Sub-Committee, and a Board Director of both the Stewardship Centre for BC and the Starfish Canada.
In the spirit of respect, reciprocity, and truth, we acknowledge that we live, work, and gather on the traditional territories of the peoples of Treaty 7, including the Blackfoot Confederacy—comprising the Siksika, Kainai, and Piikani Nations—as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina Nations.
This land, known as Moh’kinsstis in the Blackfoot language and encompassing what is now Districts 5 and 6, is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3, within the historical Northwest Métis homeland.
We recognize and honour the deep connection these Nations have to the land, and we are grateful for the opportunity to share in its stewardship.
As we continue our work, we commit to learning from Indigenous knowledge systems, uplifting Indigenous voices, and fostering relationships rooted in equity, understanding, and reconciliation.
