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About Us
Learn more about the individuals behind Women Geoscientists in Canada. We promote and advocate for gender diversity within the geosciences.
Kerry Anne Pumphrey, EP, PGeo
Kerry-Anne is a Senior Scientist at BlueFrog Environmental Consulting Inc. and has a M.Sc. in Land Resource from the University of Guelph. She has worked in environmental geoscience for 19 years, primarily focusing on contaminated sites management, contaminant hydrogeology, and physical hydrogeology.
Anelda van Staden, PhD
Anelda holds a Ph.D. in geology and is a senior process mineralogist with Teck Metals Ltd. She has applied her passion for rocks to help with the integration of mineralogical data sets for maximum gains and minimum risk at all levels of the mine life cycle for the last 19 years. She is an avid advocate for girls and women in STEM.
Diana Benz, PhD
Diana has worked in the mineral exploration industry for over two decades. She holds a PhD, which focused on biogeochemistry and geostatistics, and is the founder and president of Takom Exploration
Ken Witherly
Ken is the president of Condor Consulting and works as a senior geophysicist. Ken is very active with professional societies and conferences, and advocates for diversity.
Nalin Shah
Nalin is an exploration geologist with Rio Tinto based in Canada. Nalin is a geoscientist with 25 years of international project management in Mongolia, Canada, Bulgaria and Indonesia, India, and has expertise in various commodities - primarily Copper, Gold, with some experience in Iron Ore, Base Metals, Ni Cu PGE and Diamonds.
Lara McClintock, MSc
Lara is an exploration geologist and holds a M.Sc. in Earth Sciences from Simon Fraser University. Lara has worked on a variety of base and precious metal exploration projects and is currently Manager of Greenfields Exploration, North & Central America for South32 Ltd. She is a strong supporter of Minerals Education and working with local communities.
Anna Villerbu
Anna is a Geomodelling Analyst at Ero Copper Corp., a copper producer headquartered in Vancouver and with operations in Brazil.
Emily Fenton, PGeo
Emily works for Teck Resources Ltd. as a Project Geologist. She is also a Director for Mine Shift.