Erin Lorann Nuckols

Erin Lorann Nuckols researches themes of care, cooperation, and collaboration. Nuckols and their family currently live on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples. Nuckols is a parent, avid bicycle rider, enjoys a good music festival, and loves food. They make earnest attempts at gardening, permaculture, and zero-waste living. Nuckols is presently an academic at the University of Victoria, where they work on nonviolent communication for social action and regenerative environmental design. Nuckols engages in research through relationships with the land, people, and non-human beings as a primary aspect of their personal and professional endeavors. Nuckols is a mathematics of information technology and complex systems postdoctoral fellow with Sarah M. Wiebe, creating policy guidance that uplifts community voices for health policy-makers about extreme weather events throughout the Gulf Islands and the mainland of British Columbia. Nuckols earned their PhD from Virginia Tech University, which sits on Tutelo & Monacan land. Their research centered on underserved, lactating parents on college campuses. Prior to this, Nuckols lived in Washington D.C. & Pune, India, working on projects related to health equity, policy, food sovereignty, and supporting indigenous communities after forced removal for green infrastructure projects. Nuckols earned their master's in public health (2016) and arts in history (2013) on the unceded territory of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations. Nuckols researched cultural foodways, disaster response, and gendered relationships to infrastructure. In 2010, Nuckols earned their Bachelor of Arts in History on an island at the mouth of Oso Creek. Nuckols also holds advanced certifications for teaching Yoga and meditation.