Portrait
Name
Kyla Morrisseau
Company
Animbiigoo Zaagi’igan Anishinaabek First Nation
Location
Animbiigoo Zaagi’igan Anishinaabek First Nation
Description
As the first point of entry for all industrial undertakings, Kyla’s main priority is protecting the rights and interests of Animbiigoo Zaagi’igan Anishinaabek, along with teaching her community how to adapt to a changing climate. She sees the absolute value in using green/clean energy to fight Climate Change and lower carbon emissions for the next generations. Over the last few years, Kyla’s job has contorted with the Canada Critical Minerals Strategy as it shapes the global transition to net-zero; monitoring of the lands, waters, and resources has been at an all-time high to keep them from incursion as her community works in partnership with their neighbours and exemplary proponents to harvest the resources that will aid in our world’s movement to a lower-carbon economy. AZA’s resources have been in the ground since time immemorial. If extraction cannot happen in a way that Protects Mother Earth, those minerals will continue to wait for the right time to come out.
In addition, Kyla works closely with their Community Planner and Development Manager to research best practices as they push forward with the construction of the new community. She has been exploring clean energy initiatives to help her community move forward to achieve its vision of a Green Community with self-sustaining employment. She has a profound passion for environmental preservation and protection on every level. Kyla believes if humanity works together to understand and carry out these clean energy initiatives, our world will still be here seven generations from now. She has a strong passion for youth engagement, talking to them, listening to them, including them in the dialogue, and teaching them new ways of seeing. Equipping the youth of tomorrow with all the tools of today is so important. Kyla is the proud mother of six Ojibway children and co-author of The Palgrave Handbook of Global Arts Education.