Banner photo by Deirdre Leowinata
Awards & Accolades
Awards —
Audience Choice award, Friday Harbor Film Festival
National Geographic Young Explorer AWARD
Best Short Film Award, Waimea Film Festival
Public Ethnography As Innovative Learning Award
Irving K Barber One World Scholarship
Asper Foundation Communications Award
Jason Lang Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Achievement
New York Invitational scholarship to ECAD
Memberships & Workshops —
• Student Member of the Explorers Club
Student Member of Blue Earth Photo Alliance
ALASKA MARINE SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM
BANFF ADVENTURE FILMMAKERS WORKSHOP
STORY-MONEY-IMPACT, MEDIA THAT MATTERS
MAKING FILMS & MAKING A LIVING, MEDIA THAT MATTERS
FOUNDRY PHOTOJOURNALISM WORKSHOP
Instructional skills centre for teaching & educational technology
The Nature of Media, Media That Matters
National Geographic Science-telling Bootcamp
Lindsay Marie Stewart
is a National Geographic Explorer and the founder of the Natural Connections Project, an education-based short film series showcasing communities and Indigenous schools using innovative teaching and learning practices to engage youth. Lindsay’s Master of Arts in Intercultural and International Communications and Bachelor of Arts in Professional Communications, combined with a Photojournalism Diploma and Technical Writing Certificate, complement her visual advocacy efforts.
Always curious and an advocate for amplifying diverse voices and stories; Lindsay is a content creator and communication strategist driven to honour the living world. From the forest to the ocean, Lindsay produces conservation film projects and public awareness campaigns, using storytelling through photography, film, graphic design, and multimedia projects to inspire positive change and ignite community mobilization.
Photo: Kate Harris
“An award-winning producer, director and creative storyteller driven to celebrate and give expression to our witness of every-day beauty, the strength of the human spirit, heart and hope.”
A decade into my life, my twin brother and I were taken out of school by our teacher-parents to travel the world and to show us another side of learning. I was given a hands-on, experiential opportunity: from back-packing throughout Turkey to learning the rhythm of the Maasai dance in Kenya; to camels and elephants in India and the Sinai Peninsula; to the Annapurna base camp in Nepal and mountains of New Zealand; to Borneo headhunter villages, and into a 4x4 camper with snorkel to the Australian outback all the way to the tropical islands of Raratonga and Tahiti.
Today, I have travelled to nearly 40 countries and am passionate about using imagery and media to convey messages, inspire positive change, ignite community mobilization, and advocate for public education. I actively search for ways to understand the complexities that exist in our cultures, advocate for the protection of wildlife, and illuminate the things that unite us as human beings, as opposed to emphasizing our differences.
Best friend to Kumai the Kyrgyz Taigan and married to a man with a rich heart and quick feet, I am based in Nelson, British Columbia.
