Shirley Roburn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. She researches the public storytelling strategies used by Indigenous communities and their civil society allies in order to reframe controversies over energy infrastructure development in terms of issues of land and water, food, and cultural sovereignty. More recently, her work has focused on low-carbon media and research practices, and on on-line digital journalism startups use of data visualizations in digital storytelling that foregrounds social inequities related to health and environment.