Tracy Glynn

Bio

Tracy Glynn has been the Acadian Forest Campaign Coordinator with the Conservation Council of New Brunswick since March 2006. From Fredericton, she coordinates a province-wide campaign to protect the Acadian forest. She analyzes policies, develops educational materials, lobbies government and acts as a media spokesperson. Tracy also teaches environmental praxis at St. Thomas University.

As a CUSO cooperant, Tracy was the international campaigner at the Mining Advocacy Network (JATAM) in Jakarta, Indonesia from 2000 to 2003. Fluent in Bahasa Indonesian, she continues to volunteer for JATAM, an organization that supports mine affected communities.

She is a co-editor of the Mines and Communities website and sits on the boards of Mining Watch Canada and the Dominion News Cooperative. She is a founding member of the N.B. Media Co-op and the Fredericton Peace Coalition. She is active with the Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network and the Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network.

Born and raised on a mixed farm in Miramichi, Tracy holds a M.Sc. in Environmental Science from Memorial University of Newfoundland and a B.Sc. in Biology from St. Francis Xavier University. In 2005, she was awarded a CIDA/AUCC CanadaCorps Scholarship to do community-based research at a nickel mine in Indonesia.

Issue of Investigation

As a 2009 Gordon Global Fellow, Tracy will examine through a gender lens the situation of indigenous women in Guatemala, Indonesia and Canada impacted by mining. She will assess the progress of the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women in the mine affected communities. Policy recommendations, informed by the gender analysis, will address problems of gender inequality and lack of empowerment of women in these communities.