Dr. Henry Penn has a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies: Civil Engineering from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Loughborough University with over a decade’s experience developing and leading community-based participatory research and infrastructure projects to address food-water-energy security and climate resilience in rural and remote locations across the circumpolar north. His experience includes strategic planning, climate mitigation and energy, infrastructure planning, delivery, operations, and maintenance. Henry is an advocate for open communication, makes collaboration the foundation of his project management approach, and focuses on creating opportunities for youth and underrepresented groups in research. Henry was previously manager of the Kluane Lake Research Station and science and sustainability program manager at the Arctic Institute of North America responsible for an experimental facility that tested major investments in new technologies and developed good practices for lowering the environmental footprint of remote research station facilities across the circumpolar north.