Erin Konsmo (they/she) is a Staff Research Scholar in Indigenous Science, Technology and Environment at the Technoscience Research Unit at the University of Toronto. Erin is an Alberta-raised Métis (citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation and registered Métis harvester) fisher, mixed-media artist and scholar. With a background in environmental studies, Erin's research interests include climate justice, Indigenous harvesting practices, fishing, arts-based methodologies, feminist and queer theories, and politicized healing and embodiment.
Their arts practice currently focuses on fish scale art, a land-based arts practice that includes harvesting fish, processing and cleaning the scales, as well as the vertebrae and bones to create intricate florals.
Erin is also a somatic practitioner and educator in climate and social justice movement spaces and believes in the body as a place for transformation towards what we care about.