Kikila

Kikila Perrin

Research Associate

Kikila (he/they) is a settler of primarily western European descent (Germanic & Continental Celtic), who grew up mostly in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) on traditional Kanienʼkehá:ka territories before moving to METULIE/Ku-sing-ay-las (so-called Victoria, BC) on unceded W̱SÁNEĆ and lək̓ʷəŋən territories in 2015. Kikila completed their PhD at the University of Victoria in August 2025, where they worked with Sarah Jim’s W̱SÍ,ḴEM Ivy Project in W̱SÁNEĆ and Cheryl Bryce’s lək̓ʷəŋən Community Toolshed. Kikila is currently the Project Manager for the Archipelagos of Indigenous-led Resurgence for Planetary Health project and is a sessional instructor in the School of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria.

Working with Sophia Carodenuto, Kikila has been exploring potential conservation outcomes at Ada’itsx/Fairy Creek, the site of the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history, and the ways settler supporters and settler environmentalists tacitly replicate the oppressive relationships of the settler colony, and the impacts this type of participation in Land Defence can have on Indigenous Nations and People