Dr. Shauna BurnSilver is an environmental social scientist by training, and an Associate Professor at Arizona State University (ASU). She comes from a settler background – raised in Colorado, USA, and now living and working in Tempe/Scottsdale, AZ, on the ancestral homelands of the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa) peoples. Dr. BurnSilver is the ASU PI or Co-PI for 3 NSF Navigating the New Arctic projects (ARC-NAV, Frozen Commons and ACTION), all centering collaborative process, knowledge co-generation and governance, and grounded in partnerships with communities in coastal and Interior Alaska, Canada, Russia and Mongolia. As an interdisciplinary scholar and learner, she leans into the strength that comes from addressing challenges around climate change and complex governance and regulatory frameworks by putting multiple worldviews, methodologies and types of knowledge into conversation. It is a goal of her work to put new knowledge into action in ways that make a difference in the lives of Arctic peoples and places. Dr. BurnSilver performs research, teaches, and mentors students, and is a co-convenor of the IASSA Working Group on Re-imagining Arctic Governance.