Jenny Botica, PhD, RPCA, RPA, CAHP

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Based at Kleanza's Vancouver Island (Bowser) office, Jenny is co-owner of Kleanza, oversees quality assurance, quality control, senior review, and stakeholder engagement for all projects. She is a permit holder and field director for coastal and interior BC. Jenny directs Kleanza's education, training, communication, and heritage permitting and policy initiatives, and is a RISC Instructor. She is also Faculty in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at North Island College.

Experience

Years: 19

Regions: coastal BC; interior BC; Yukon; Northwest Territories; Arizona; Jordan; Belize

Specializations: education and training; permitting and policy; heritage sovereignty; public archaeology; anthropological archaeology; applied archaeology; wet sites; field skills; ethics; "looting"/collecting; site formation processes

Education

Provincial Instructor Diploma Program (2020), Vancouver Community College

PhD Archaeology (2017), Simon Fraser University 

MA Archaeology (2005), Universiteit Leiden, NL

BA Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology (2004), University of British Columbia

Professional affiliations

BC Association of Professional Archaeologists (RPCA — Registered Professional Consulting Archaeologist)

Register of Professional Archaeologists

Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (Board of Directors)

Archaeological Society of BC

Society for American Archaeology

Society for Applied Anthropology

Gary is a project manager and field director based on Vancouver Island (Sooke).  He has experience on the south coast, interior plateau and the northeast/subarctic, where he is a field director.

Experience

Years: 40

Regions: coastal, interior/plateau, and boreal forest/subarctic BC; interior/plateau Idaho; Plains of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Wyoming; eastern Ontario; southeast United States (South Carolina and Louisiana)

Specializations: Cultural Resource Management; Geographic Information Systems; Predictive Modelling; Wet site archaeology; Artificial Inundation (reservoir archaeology); Historic (Post Contact) Archaeology; Lithic analysis; Data Management and Analysis, Education

Education

Master of Education; Gonzaga University 

Master of Arts, Public Service Archaeology; University of South Carolina

Bachelor of Arts, Archaeology; University of Calgary 

Based at Kleanza's Terrace office, Suzy is a field supervisor with experience in coastal and interior BC. She has experience working on industry and academic projects in the mid-Fraser Plateau.

Experience

Years: 7

Regions: coastal BC; interior BC; Tonga; Fiji

Specializations: museology; laboratory analysis; zooarchaeology; education and training; public archaeology; marine archaeology; traditional use studies

Education

BSc Environmental Science, Archaeology, Anthropology (2015), Simon Fraser University 

Certificate Cultural Resource Management (2015), Simon Fraser University

Professional affiliations

BC Association of Professional Archaeologists (Associate)

Based at Kleanza's Prince Rupert office as a field director (interior and northwest coast) and Project Manager, Kevin is responsible for managing field crews, liaising with clients and First Nations, and reporting and analysis. He has undertaken fieldwork in coastal, sub-boreal (northeastern), and interior BC.

Experience

Years: 12

Regions: interior BC; sub-boreal (northeastern) BC; coastal BC; Saskatchewan; Alberta

Specializations: large and small scale infrastructure, commercial, residential, and industrial projects; wetsites; artifact analysis

Education

Additional archaeology coursework (ongoing)

BA Anthropology (2012), University of Alberta

Professional affiliations

BC Association of Professional Archaeologists (Associate)

Based in Kleanza’s Vancouver office, Kay oversees quality assurance, quality control, senior review, client and First Nations liaison, reporting, analysis, budgets and timelines. She is a permit holder and field director for northwestern BC (subarctic/boreal forest), Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Saskatchewan. Kay is an approved RISC Instructor.

Experience

Years: 15+
Regions: Northwestern British Columbia (subarctic/boreal), Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Canadian Prairies
Specializations: Large and small scale infrastructure, mineral exploration, mine-site developments, linear developments, working with stakeholders (Aboriginal communities, public, developers, and government), Environmental Assessment applications, permitting and policy, ethics, education and training, field skills, alpine archaeology, obsidian lithics, prairie archaeology, ethnobotany, CMTs, archival research, museum curation.

Education
MA Archaeology (2016), University of Saskatchewan
BA Archaeology (2001), Simon Fraser University

Professional Affiliations
BC Association of Professional Archaeologists (RPCA – Registered Professional Consulting Archaeologist)
Saskatchewan Association of Professional Archaeologists (Professional Member)
Canadian Archaeological Association
Archaeological Society of British Columbia

Based at Kleanza's Terrace office, Amanda is co-owner and founder of Kleanza, oversees quality assurance, quality control, senior review, and stakeholder engagement for all projects. She is a permit holder and field director for coastal, interior, and sub-boreal (northeastern) BC. Amanda directs Kleanza's contracts, heritage permitting and policy initiatives, and is a RISC Instructor.

Experience

Years: 22

Regions: coastal BC; interior BC; sub-boreal (northeastern) BC; Yukon

Specializations: education and training; permitting and policy; dendrochronology; CMTs 

Education

Dendrochronology (2010), University of Arizona

MA Archaeology (2002), Simon Fraser University

BA Archaeology (1998), University of Northern BC

Professional affiliations

BC Association of Professional Archaeologists (RPCA — Registered Professional Consulting Archaeologist)

Archaeological Society of BC

Society for American Archaeology

Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine Heritage Advisory Committee

Working out of Kleanza's Vancouver Island (Bowser) office, Mirjana supports all staff and company operations with the Operations Manager in her role as Project Coordinator, and supports all field projects as Archaeologist. Previously, she worked at the Archaeology Branch, and has experience managing archaeological data, reports, logistics.

Experience

Years: 5

Regions: BC; Belgium; Slovenia

Interests: environmental science; sedimentology and stratigraphy; museums; biological anthropology

Education

BSc Geoscience (2019), Vancouver Island University

Advanced Diploma in GIS (2021), Vancouver Island University

Professional affiliations

Engineers and Geoscientists of BC (student)

BC Association of Professional Archaeologists (Affiliate)

Based at Kleanza's Terrace office, Manda has field experience in coastal and interior BC. She currently assists with proposals, reporting, administrative tasks, field work and lab work.

Experience

Years: 7

Regions: coastal BC; interior BC

Specializations: lithics; household archaeology; CMTs, community archaeology

Education

MA, Anthropology (2007), University of Toronto 

BA, Archaeology (2006), Simon Fraser University

Kelly is the Creative Director of our Stories & Outreach Division and her focus will be on documenting stories of truth and reconciliation, language reclamation and sovereignty in the areas of conservation, environment, heritage and culture. For over 25 years, Kelly has produced documentary films and developed social media impact campaigns to tackle issues of social injustice, food security, access to medicine, youth mental health, environmental protection, conservation and human rights. 

Experience

Years: 28

Regions: Across Canada

Professional Affiliations:

Documentary Organization of Canada 

International Documentary Association 

WIFT (Women in Film and Television)

The Film Production Network

Cause Marketing Professionals 

Doc Society