Leasi Vanessa Lee Raymond is the Director of Research Operations for Abundant Intelligences Program at Concordia University. She is a socio-technologist who is passionate about culture, political science, data ethics, and Indigenous data sovereignty. She has a decade of experience building software for managing and visualizing Arctic environmental data. Raymond is the co-chair for Interagency Arctic Research Policy Collaboration (IARPC)’s Data Management team, co-chair for the international Arctic Data Committee, and expert committee member for the US Arctic Observing Network. She holds a M.A. in Arctic Governance with a focus on Arctic Security from University of Alaska Fairbanks and a B.A. in Cultural Studies from Hampshire College. Raymond is proud of her Samoan heritage.

Sabrina Smith (she/her) is originally from Bdeóta Othúŋwe/Gakaabikaang/Minneapolis, Minnesota and is a white-settler of Irish and Scottish-Gaelic descent. Sabrina has a BA in Art History from Mount Holyoke College (2017) and an MA in Art History from Concordia University (2023). Her graduate thesis under Dr. John Povtin critically examined the exhibition, Le monde en tête (Lyon, 2019 and Montreal, 2022), and the Musée des Confluences’ curatorial politics and representation of Indigenous art history. Smith’s other works include a group exhibition, Confronting the Anthropocene: Theory, Activism, Art, exploring posthuman feminist phenomenology and the biotic and abiotic elements of ourselves. Sabrina joins the Abundant Intelligences program as Coordinator North, bringing her interest in phenomenology including AI phenomenology and the phenomenology of senses as bodily and cultural phenomena to the team.