Leila M Harris is Professor at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at The University of British Columbia. She is trained as a socio-cultural and political geographer with interest in resource issues and inequalities, gender, political ecology, and developing contexts. Her research to date has focused primarily on water politics in the Middle East/ Turkey, water governance in underserved communities (especially in the Global South) and gender and equity dimensions of resource use and access. Her work is also strongly connected to work in political ecology, environmental justice, and equity studies. For more information, please click HERE.