Nessie Nankivell

Nessie Nankivell is a PhD student and GIS analyst with a focus on infrastructure development, impact assessment, and gender. Her work focuses on the Ring of Fire mining development in Northern Ontario and novel approaches to visualizing how industrial development impacts on Treaty rights. She is a research partner with Neskantaga First Nation with whom she is co-developing community-led mapping tools that can be used to protect Indigenous jurisdiction. Using design methods attained as an assistant researcher at Forensic Architecture, she hopes to use counter-mapping and situated testimony to create new evidentiary techniques for colonial violence.

Nessie is a Faculty of Arts & Humanities Top (FAST) Doctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto and the recipient of a Canadian Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral (2024-2027).