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Title and Organization:		Climate Action Facilitator, British Columbia Ministry of the Environment
Gender and Age:		Female, 31
Location:		Whitehorse, Yukon Territory
Country of Residence:		Canada
Country of Birth:		Canada
Nationalities:		Canadian
Citizenships:		Canada
Languages:		English



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About Me

Amber is a Climate Change Action Facilitator for the BC Ministry of the Environment and a M.Sc. student in Earth Science at Simon Fraser University. She studies glacier retreat and natural hazards in the Yukon. She founded and co-chaired the International Polar Year Youth Steering Committee (now the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists – APECS). The committee’s goals are to involve youth in all aspects of polar research and policy, to increase collaboration between the sciences, arts and education, and to foster respect for different ways of knowing. Amber’s passion is climate change. She was part of the official youth delegation to the UN Climate Change Meetings and was one of 200 Canadians selected by the Climate Project Canada to be trained by Al Gore to present an updated version of the award-winning Inconvenient Truth slideshow. She travelled to Antarctica in 2006 with Students on Ice as a youth mentor to teach their student expeditionners and joined them again in August 2008 for their Arctic Expedition. She is currently working with SFU’s Adaptation to Climate Change Team, striving towards her certification as a yoga instructor, and in her free time facilitates workshops for Waterlution, a non-profit organization who brings young professionals together around complex water issues. She and her husband, Tyler Kuhn, currently split their time between Whitehorse, Yukon and Vancouver, British Columbia, while they try to pool enough financial resources for their next adventure.

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