Towagh Behr

Anthropologist, Director of Research @Kwusen Research & Media Ltd

Victoria, BC, CA

Lead researcher, manager and founder of a company supporting Indigenous sovereignty through research and information management. Achieving Free Prior Informed Consent requires reliable, clear and accessible information on both Indigenous Title and Rights and the activities that can impact Title and Rights. To address this, we specialize in community-based research with Indigenous communities to document Title and Rights and to understand the impacts of industrial development and cumulative effects on these rights. Hand in hand with reliable research is the need for information management and mapping systems that securely store this research while making it accessible to Indigenous communities facing complex land and resource management decisions. We provide software tools that address these needs and achieve Indigenous data sovereignty.

McGill University

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) - Honours, Anthropology; Sociology

University of Victoria

Master of Arts (M.A.), Cultural Anthropology, Environmental Studies