Grace Akinrinola is a Master of Marine Management Candidate at Dalhousie University, a Student Fellow with the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center, and a member of the Bailey Lab. She is an awardee of the Sobey Fund for Oceans scholarship. She earned an M.Sc. in Marine Pollution and Management (Distinction) and a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Marine Biology from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Grace is passionate about the well-being of the environment, particularly the marine environment. A lover of new places with over 7 years of experience in environmental impact assessment, implementation of ecosystem-based approach programs, and strategic marine-related research, in addition to her 6 months undergraduate internship with Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). Throughout her applied marine biology work, she continued to witness and develop an interest in the human dimensions of resource use, particularly aspects related to conflict and justice. She is excited to join the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center. She looks forward to bringing her knowledge and experiences to the team and developing an interdisciplinary approach to address contemporary issues in ocean and coastal management. Specifically, her research is to apply the DFO (Maritimes Region) Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) Framework to the case of Treaty fisheries implementation (particularly lobster) to assess and understand gaps in what the Framework offers and what the Sipekne’katik First Nation community may need. Further, the newly developed Sipekne’katik Governance Initiative (SGI) will provide the Mi’kmaw lens against which DFO’s EBM approach will be co-examined.