Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook is the co-founder and co-holder of 7GenCities and project co advisor at Dark Matter Labs; advisor to a number of Indigenous, foundation and non-profit organizations; and post-secondary educator in environmental, Indigenous and urban studies. She is deeply engaged in Indigenous, environmental, trans-disciplinary and trans-systemic approaches to education and research, land relationships and stewardship, climate resilience, bio-regional regeneration, placekeeping, innovation, and healing justice and mental wellness.

She is passionate about reciprocal, collaborative and inter-generational pathways for learning and knowledge co-creation, practice, and partnerships in her roles within project and research leadership, academia, advising, and community building. Her Akawaio-Kapon and mixed ancestry from Guyana and the Netherlands, combined with community and international experiences across cultures, ecologies and geographies, enable her to bring multifaceted perspectives and sensibilities to her work that are both place-based and global.

She is the co-editor and co-author of Sacred Civics: Building Seven Generation Cities with Jayne Engle and Julian Agyeman and many other authors across many disciplines, knowledge traditions and geographies (Routledge 2022); and many other peer-reviewed and online publications.