Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Lifeways in Indigenous Asia, jointly appointed in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her current research applies community-based approach to exploring the possibilities of collective survival on warming planet. It builds on her longterm ethnographic study of the Sherpa community at home and in the diaspora and her extensive study of human dimensions of climate change in the Himalayas. She previously taught at The New School in New York, Pacific Lutheran University, Penn State University, Washington State University and University of Washington. Her interviews have appeared in Alpinist, Al Jazeera, BBC, Foreign Policy, PRI’s The World, Newsweek, and BYU Radio’s Top of the Mind among others.