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Introduction: Sarah & Kirsten

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 This episode provides the context and background of the A Hot Topic: Addressing Heat Vulnerability in the Capital Regional District (CRD) research project, and how this podcast series came to be. Kirsten Mah, community organizer, and Dr. Sarah Marie Wiebe, assistant professor at the University of Victoria, tell the stories of their personal experiences of the 2021 heat dome, and why they as community organizers were moved to create this research project, and this podcast series. The intention of creating and making a publicly available podcast is to communicate through policy listening with local policy- and decision-makers to create more equitable policy outcomes. This episode is hosted by Erica Dolman with the mentorship and guidance of Nicola Watts and produced by Dr. Sarah Marie Wiebe and Kirsten Mah. Funding for this project was provided by the Michael Smith Health Research BC Reach Award. References mentioned in podcast: BC Coroners’ Service, 2022. Retrieved from https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/birth-adoption-death-marriage-and-divorce/deaths/coroners-service/death-review-panel/extreme_heat_death_review_panel_report.pdf. Government of British Columbia, n.d. Retrieved from https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/safety/emergency-management/preparedbc/know-your-hazards/severe-weather/extreme-heat. S. Wiebe & K. Mah, (2023) A Hot Topic: Feeling the Impacts of Extreme Heat. Retrieved from https://www.communityresearchcanada.ca/post/report-and-story-map-a-hot-topic-feeling-the-impacts-of-extreme-heat-2023. Bios Kirsten Mah - Kirsten is a community builder and storyteller committed to empowering community members to build resilient support networks in the face of climate change. Her background in program evaluation has taught her the power of storytelling to impact policy and programming. She is excited to utilize new forms of media such as podcasting to share knowledge and spark change. Dr. Sarah Marie Wiebe - Sarah Marie Wiebe is a writer, researcher and mixed media storyteller based in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. She is the Co-Founder of the Feminist Environmental Research Network and author of Hot Mess: Mothering through a Code Red Climate Emergency. Her research and teaching practices emphasize public engagement, political ecology and participatory policymaking, and she is passionate about cultivating avenues for democratic deliberation through policy listening. For more about her background see: www.sarahmariewiebe.com. Erica Dolman - Erica Dolman is a community-based researcher and resident of Victoria, BC on the unceded and traditional territory of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Xʷsepsəm/Esquimalt) and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples. She recently graduated with a Master's of Public Administration from the University of Victoria, and completed her thesis project called Podcast as Policy Communicator: How lived experiences of extreme heat events inform local policy conversations which explored how storytelling of the lived experiences of priority populations in the CRD may serve as a climate change communication tool. As of the release of this podcast, she is now a podcast producer, and believes in the importance of building connection within the community to better prepare for extreme weather events caused by climate change.Soundscape credits Background music: Insirish by Kjartan Abel. Visit https://kjartan-abel.com/library to find free music for your next project. This work is licensed under the following: CC BY-SA 4.0. Introduction fire sound: Fire_Forest_Inferno.aif by Dynamicell -- https://freesound.org/s/17548/ -- License: Attribution 3.0
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