Kelly Chapman is an ecologist and an environmental planner with 30 years experience working with government, First Nations and non-governmental organizations on biodiversity conservation in Canada, Australia and West Africa. For her PhD research she explored how complexity theory can be used to help untangle "wicked" environmental problems. Kelly is currently working on nature-based climate change adaptation for BC’s south coast.

Kelly is also an active backcountry skier and long distance paddler, having soloed BC's infamous inside passage, an approximately 1,000 mile route, by sea kayak. She was also the first woman in recorded history to solo the Churchill River in Northern Saskatchewan. Kelly dabbles in kiteboarding, rock climbing, mountain biking and mountaineering, and is an adventure travel enthusiast, having visited  ...