Terzah Tippin Poe
Terzah Tippin Poe, Inupiaq, is a Flagship Doctoral Research Fellow in the Anthropology and Environmental Policy program and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center working on environmental justice and the energy transition. She also teaches at Harvard University in the Sustainability & Environmental Management program and is a mentor at the Kennedy School’s Arctic Initiative. She has lectured at Harvard Law, MIT, Boston University, Tufts, Boston College, University of San Diego, and other institutions on social & environmental justice, Indigenous rights, marine policy, and collaborative development. Her consulting work centers on vulnerable communities/Indigenous peoples, risk assessment, and conflict resolution especially as it pertains to large-scale extractive resource development. As part of Poe’s portfolio with Royal Dutch Shell & TransCanada, she designed and led community engagement programs, negotiated agreements and worked with international organizations including the World Bank, Inuit Circumpolar Council, WWF, First Peoples Worldwide, Living Earth and The Nature Conservancy. She is also a co-author of a book and several published short stories on life in the north. Poe currently serves as US Lead for the London-based think tank Polar Research and Policy Initiative, on the board of the UArctic Indigenous Committee, and has an advisory board position with University of New England-North. Poe holds a master’s from Harvard in Sustainability and Environmental Management, a bachelor’s in Journalism and post graduate studies in Public Policy and Ethics from the University of Alaska.