Darcy Riddell
Darcy Riddell
Darcy has worked in cauldrons of social change for 25 years - on forest campaigns conserving the Great Bear Rainforest, leading strategic learning at McConnell Foundation, training leaders,designing and facilitating multi-sector change initiatives, funding First Nations stewardship at Makeway, advancing environmental policy change, and founding collaborative networks centring sustainability, justice, and systems innovation. She works with RAD Network on Indigenous-led conservation finance and nature-based solutions, and as a consultant. Darcy has a Ph.D. in Social Innovation from UWaterloo focused on leadership and impact in complex multi-scaled systems, and reads tarot cards in service of collective transformation. She sits on the board of Social Innovation Canada and Hollyhock. A fifth generation British Columbian, she lives with her two children in əsəlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), & Sḵwx̱wú7meshsi (Squamish) territories, where she’s a grateful student of nature and wisdom traditions.