Korey Wetherell

Korey Wetherell (he/him/they) is a regenerative organizing and design researcher and incoming Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellow with the DREAM+PLAN network. His research explores regenerative business through more-than-human organizing, focusing on how pollinators, ecosystems, and Indigenous governance frameworks and epistemologies shape relational models for economic and ecological resilience.

Korey holds a Master of Arts in Geography and the Environment with a Graduate Certificate in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where their thesis centered on Hylaeus anthracinus, a critically endangered bee endemic to Hawaiʻi. HIs research integrated Indigenous Hawaiian knowledge systems (kilo, pilina, inoa ʻāina) with critical geography, systems thinking, and multispecies ethnography to reframe conservation as a relational, place-based, and culturally grounded practice.

Outside of research, Korey is an avid hiker, music lover, and fan of cartoons and games. He brings experience in nonprofit development, community-led environmental education, and spatial storytelling, with a deep interest in how design, data, and narrative co-shape resilient futures.

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Within the DREAM+PLAN Program, Korey is most excited about the opportunity to co-create with an interdisciplinary, international cohort — and to center Indigenous and local perspectives across global case studies while challenging extractive business norms through more ethical, relational, and ecological organizing.