As published on Tree Canada's blog, March 3, 2026. When I recently revisited Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez, I expected a refresher. Instead, I found a mirror. The book’s central argument, that a gender data gap shapes society, felt less like a revelation than a validation of something I had… Continue reading From under-representation to recognition: Reflections on women, data, and change in urban forestry
As published on Tree Canada's blog, December 10, 2025. As we head into the holiday season, I find myself returning, as I often do, to the quiet, resolute presence of trees as sentinels in our lives. Growing up Armenian in Canada, I was raised with a deep sense of ancestry and attachment to the land,… Continue reading Alder things considered: Holiday reflections on trees, culture and connection
This past week I had the opportunity to participate in the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS) International Round table workshop and pubic event called, “Do Rainbows Come in Green? Urban Forests and Multicultural Citizenship”. The three-day workshop was coordinated by Dr. Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch, and held in Vancouver at the University… Continue reading Diversity in urban forestry
Last summer Chant and I visited Ireland for what I hope is going to be the first of many trips. The landscape of soft rolling hills seems to whisper a lullaby that can ease you to sleep… until the horn of a city bus snaps your attention back to look in the right direction… Continue reading On Journeys: Roads leading and returning
After an eventful month of travels through New York, Malmö, Copenhagen, Dublin, Toronto, and Montreal; I’ve been thinking a lot about people and about the associations that we make with urban places and the memories that resonate from various experiences. For some, it’s the architecture, for others it’s food, some like sculptures and monuments, some… Continue reading Of travels, trees and tales: Everyone’s a storyteller
Adrina C. Bardekjian, MFC, PhD 