Chantal Noa Forbes

Chantal Noa Forbes, PhD is a transnational, transdisciplinary scholar and educator working at the intersection of ecology, spirituality, and culture. Chantal’s work examines the metaphysical and ecological significance of decolonial and Indigenous perspectives on multispecies ontology, transspecies consciousness, and human-and-more-than-human relations. Chantal’s teaching focuses on decolonial methods and pedagogy; environmental studies and anthropology; ecology and religion; and Indigenous lifeways and sovereignty. Before earning her Ph.D., Chantal spent twenty years working in social documentaries, environmental media, and agricultural communications across Africa, Southwest and Southeast Asia, and Europe. Chantal has been a visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia and is a senior adjunct faculty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies and a core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute in California.