Caroline Coburn, MA, RPP, MCIP
Partner & Managing Director, Odonaterra Inc.

Caroline is an environmental planner with 31 of experience in public and Indigenous consultation, community impact assessment, and regional land and environmental planning. Caroline has supported many Indigenous communities in building capacity in strategic natural resources management and in environmental assessment.   

 Caroline is an experienced impact assessment practitioner. She has consulted with and assessed the project and cumulative impacts on Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities resulting from major resource and infrastructure developments such as mining, pipeline and oil sands projects, conventional and alternative energy developments, and municipal and provincial infrastructure projects. She has worked in most Canadian jurisdictions including Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Nunavut, Yukon Territory, and Northwest Territories. Her regional and community-based land use planning experience expands over three decades and includes citizen engagement on transportation planning, community planning, and watershed/environmental stewardship planning.

 Caroline has decades of developmental facilitation and training experience spanning multi-stakeholder facilitation in watershed planning, environmental planning and policy for provincial governments, Oil & gas and diamond sector projects, various First Nations planning committees, public participation training, human geography research methods, and for EcoCanada’s Building Environmental Aboriginal Human Resources (BEAHR) Environmental Monitoring Training in northern Saskatchewan.  She also taught a fourth-year Environmental Geography course part-time at the University of Ottawa in 2015 and 2016.

 Caroline is a Registered Professional Planner in Ontario, and a full member of the Canadian Institute of Planners. She was President and Treasurer of the Ontario Association for Impact Assessment from 2012 to 2019.  She has Master of Arts and an Honours Bachelor of Arts, both in Human Geography, from the University of Alberta and the University of Saskatchewan, respectively. She is a lifelong learner with training in public participation, project management, Indigenous cultural awareness, and negotiation. She currently lives in North Bay, Ontario in the Robinson Huron Treaty territory and continues to learn about Indigenous culture, language and protocols from Indigenous friends and Elders.