Lori Lee Oates is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Currently, she holds a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for a project entitled Cursed: How the Resource Curse Manifests in Newfoundland and Labrador. Lori Lee recently co-edited a special section of Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Social Justice & Culture on Gender and Climate Justice. She is also a member of the Environmental Cluster of the Canadian Sociological Association. Lori Lee has been a contributor to the CBC, The Globe and Mail, Canada's National Observer, and The Hill Times. She has advised national environmental groups on the political economy of climate change and a just transition off fossil fuels.