Sadie Beaton, MSc

Sadie Beaton is a listener, a researcher, an activist and a storyteller.  She is also a settler - a guest on unceded Mi'kmaw lands- who grew up exploring Mi'kma'ki's rugged shorelines and scrubby Acadian forests in rural Guysborough County, eating a lot of mackerel and cod along the way. Eventually she moved to Kijipuktuk/ Halifax, where she earned a BA in English Literature from Kings College (2000) and a Masters in Resource and Environmental Management at Dalhousie (2006). Sadie has been working with the Ecology Action Centre (EAC) since 2004, doing research, policy advocacy and communications work on issues from beach management to community food security to small-scale fisheries advocacy. Starting in 2015, Sadie began to build relationships outside of her usual ENGO circles, asking questions about environmental racism, what it means to be a settler on unceded Mi'kmaw lands, and what environmental justice could look here in unceded Mi'kma'ki. This research-in-relationship culminated in a podcast series called Shades of Green, which ran for two seasons in 2017 and 2018.