Our Team
Learn more about the team behind the Oak Bay Community Green Map!
Jessica Joseph
I’m Jessica Joseph from the Songhees Nation and the Arts and Community Engagement Coordinator with Living Lab. I am passionate with cultural restoration and art, and I’m inspired by plants and traditional stories. I started working with the Living Lab over the summer, co-facilitating workshops with local and regional youth. I’m drawn to this project because I believe in the work being done from a community-based perspective. Moving forward, I see Living Lab connecting communities and bringing land-based learning into educational experiences.
Graphic Design Lead
Sam Mason
Lead Mapping Consultant
Community mapper with a background in accessibility & GIS systems. Passionate about mapping as a tool for social and environmental change. Past projects include BC Community Asset Map (CLBC) and the Complete Communities project (CSPC), situating me nicely to assist with the OBCGM.
MA Student @ UVic, Department of Geography.
Chris Poirier-Skelton
Liaison between the Board and the Green Mapping Project. Member and Chair of the Board of the Gordon Head Community Association for 11 years. Previous Director of Community Development for United Way Victoria. Long experience in spearheading Community Mapping Projects across Victoria.
Maeve Lydon
I am honoured to be part of the revitalization of the Oak Bay Community Green Map project. I am the daughter of (another west coast) Irish immigrants now living on Lekwungen Territory and I work with the Living Lab Project which connects restoration and learning with Indigenous resurgence. I was involved with the first Oak Bay green map and was involved in regional and global mapping projects via Common Ground Mapping and Green Map.
Tom Croft
BA Sociology UVIC, Business and Marketing BCIT, former Bank Manager, retired Realtor, founding President of Community Association of Oak Bay, former Councillor District of Oak Bay.
Carol Hartwig
MSc., retired Wildlife biologist, commercial beekeeper, environmental advocate having worked and volunteered on various projects in southern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia and Vancouver Island.
Ian Graeme
Ian Graeme, BSF, retired forester and a former director in the Province’s water stewardship program. Founder and current co-chair of Friends of Bowker Creek Society. Small business owner and adventurer.
John Lutz
Professor of History at the University of Victoria with a particular interest in local history, including the Douglas Treaties, and historical mapping. He is currently working with the Songhees, Esquimalt and Tsawout communities as part of their land title/treaty negotiations. John has supported many community mapping projects and campus- community partnerships for many years including serving as the UVic liaison for the first Oak Bay Community Green Map.
Rachael Scarth
Rachael Scarth PhD; retired from research administration at UVic, formerly professor in plant science at Univ of Manitoba; long time supporter of environmental education, current co-chair of Friends of Bowker Creek Society.
Charlotte Bowman
Charlotte Bowman was born and raised in Oak Bay and spends her time volunteering with various ecological restoration projects around the CRD and current secretary of Friends of Uplands Park. She has her MSc in Earth and Ocean Science from UVic.
Crystal Tremblay
Associate Professor/Co-chair of the Map Shop in the Department of Geography and Director of CIFAL Victoria, a United Nations accredited research and training centre hosted at the University of Victoria. She is also the academic lead of the Salish Sea Hub, an initiative of the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research Knowledge 4 Change global consortium, building leadership and capacity in community-driven research addressing the UN SDGs and the UN DRIP. Crystal has led community mapping courses and projects for over a decade.