Visiting Scholar
Dr. Elin Kelsey is a leading spokesperson for hope and the environment. In 2014, she co-founded a social media campaign devoted to sharing ocean conservation successes. #OceanOptimism has reached more than 80 million users to date and has sparked a number of optimism-based conservation campaigns including #EarthOptimism, #ConservationOptimism, #ClimateOptimism and others.She has been awarded fellowships, including a Rockefeller fellowship and a Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society fellowship, to explore the question of hope and the environment in interdisciplinary contexts. The IUCN, the largest international assemblage of government and non-governmental environmental organizations, featured Elin in their “Inspiring People” campaign. Elin is an associate faculty member in the School of Environment and Sustainability at Royal Roads University in Canada and the principal of Elin Kelsey and Company, an environmental communications consultancy. Her research interests include environmental education (EE) and environmental communications (EC), particularly as related to investigating and evaluating the role of emotions in engaging youth, environmental educators and conservationists in marine issues and solutions.