Terzah Tippin Poe

Terzah Tippin Poe, Inupiaq, is a Flagship Doctoral Research Fellow in the Anthropology and Environmental Policy program at UMaine Orono 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 Harvard Kennedy School’s Arctic Initiative. She has guest lectured at Harvard Law, MIT, Boston University, Tufts, University College London, 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, communications, 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 communications strategy, 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, North to the Future, and several published short stories on life in the North.

Poe currently serves on the board of the London-based think tank Polar Research and Policy Initiative, on the board of the Henry Clay Center, 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 Communications & Journalism, and post graduate studies in Public Policy and Ethics from the University of Alaska.