Maia Foster-Sanchez is an Ottawa-based emergency manager, award-winning disaster researcher, public historian, and multimedia producer. She holds a Bilingual Honours B.A. in History from Glendon College and an MA in Disaster and Emergency Management from Royal Roads University. Maia has worked as a provincial field officer, production manager, and qualitative researcher. She is a member of the First Nations Wildfire Evacuation Partnership. Maia is passionate about demystifying emergency management to increase local capacities and to help people take care of one another in a safe and ethical way.

Publications

Foster-Sanchez, M. (2021). Hosting with Humility: Timmins’s 2019 Host Community Experience (Master’s thesis). https://viurrspace.ca/handle/10613/24501.

Foster-Sanchez, M. & Spaulding, W. (2020). Smallpox in Canada. The Canadian Encyclopedia. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/smallpox

Article

Past, present & disaster: How a historian became a gold-medal scholar

Keynote Engagements

Foster-Sanchez, M. (2020, November 24). Hosting with humility: Lessons from Timmins’ 2019 host community experience. Justice Institute of British Columbia's Emergency Management Webinars, New Westminster, Canada.

Foster-Sanchez, M. & Gervais, M. (2020, October 8). Hosting with humility: Examining Timmins’ 2019 host community experience. Ontario Disaster & Emergency Management Conference, Toronto, Canada.

Awards

Governor General's Gold Medal, 2021

International Association of Emergency Managers Graduate Student Scholarship, 2019