Profile

As an engagement, dialogue, and facilitation practitioner with over 16 years of experience, Elodie was involved in co-designing and facilitating many large-scale citizen and community engagements, including Canada’s World, the Citizen’s Dialogues on Canada’s Energy Future, the National Reconciliation Gatherings and the guided dialogues for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. She was the lead researcher on inclusion in Open Government for the Canadian Government, and a peer-reviewer for its 4th Open Government Plan. In her position as manager of knowledge and practice at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University, she co-led the development of the award-winning guide Beyond Inclusion: Equity in Public Engagement. She has been an observer at the UNFCCC COP processes since 2015, where she engages with governments and civil society on environmental democracy. She is currently pursuing a PhD with a focus on environmental democracy at Simon Fraser University, and is a consultant with different levels of government on deliberative citizen engagement processes.