Profiles | Kathryn Stone

Kathryn Stone is a PhD student at the University of Victoria. Her undergraduate and Master’s degrees in health promotion have helped guide her and fuel her passion for health equity. Through an internship at the Public Health Agency of Canada, she learned she could fuse climate mitigation and adaptation with health equity as an important way to unpack the health implications of the climate crisis. Her Master’s research focused on the mental health of young women in Eastern Canada, where she learned about the relationship between gender-based violence and climate change. Specifically, she learned about how industry development in and near Indigenous communities can increase instances of murdered and missing Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA peoples. She hopes to address call to action 13.4 in the National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls by further investigating the relationship between gender-based violence and resource extraction.