Lois Moorcroft

Lois Moorcroft is a PhD student at the University of Toronto in the OISE department of Social Justice Education who works in northern communities for social and environmental justice. A feminist human rights advocate, Lois has served as a Member of the Yukon Legislative Assembly, as a cabinet minister, as Vice-Chair of the Select Committee on the Risks and Benefits of Hydraulic Fracturing, and on the Yukon Human Rights Commission. Lois has collaborated with non-government organizations to address violence against women through court watch, police review, and law reform, to organize vigils remembering victims of femicide, and with Liard Aboriginal Women's Society and Yukon Status of Women Council to research Indigenous and racialized women’s workplace experiences in northern mine camps. Learning from family, friends, Elders, and colleagues, Lois works to protect waterways and healthy ecosystems for future generations.

Her current research examines resource governance laws and frameworks that regulate extractive industry projects on Indigenous lands in Yukon and the recognition of Indigenous legal orders and sovereignty rights. She will investigate mining projects’ cumulative impacts on fish and wildlife habitat, water quality, human health and safety, heritage resources, and social and community wellbeing. Lois is grateful to make her home on living lands of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Carcross/Tagish First Nations.