Joëlle Saey-Volckrick is a Lecturer of Ecological Economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (BSEL/HWR) and at the Elisabeth Bruyere Social Innovation School in Ottawa. She is also an editor of the international webportal Degrowth.info and a community builder for NousRire, a food buying group in Quebec. She is a associate member of the institute for international political economy Berlin (IPE). She studied her Bachelor’s in Political Science and Economics at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and her Master in International Economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR). Her research is grounded in the fields of ecological economics, political ecology, environmental justice and degrowth. Her work generally aims at bridging the gap between academic research and social movements.