Kieran Maingot

General Board Member

Canada

Kieran (they/them) is an organizer and advocate passionate about building local systems and practices of care that address the climate emergency and root these efforts in responding to crises like poverty, colonization, and organized abandonment. Currently, they are based in Tiohtiá:ke / Mooniyang, and work as a Manager of Communities, Climate Transitions at the Tamarack Institute, coaching 20 members across so-called Canada who lead place-based efforts to build just and equitable climate futures. 

Kieran has a background in sociology and holds a master's in non-profit leadership. Their interests and involvement in the climate movement are ever-evolving and presently focused on areas including, but not limited to, moving systems through cultural and behavioural change, engaging others in ways that are responsive to climate grief and anxiety, leveraging community organizing models for cross-sector collaboration, and building supportive spaces for Indigenous-led and youth-led climate projects. In the past, they have also worked to develop and steward grassroots campaigns for affordable housing and decent work and support non-profits and co-ops to mobilize resources in innovative ways to achieve their goals. 

On an average day, you’ll find Kieran curled up with a good non-fiction book in one hand and crocheting in another or in community learning from co-conspirators and planning the next mobilization.