Francielle Laclé is a junior researcher and lecturer at the University of Aruba. She is currently conducting her PhD in a sandwich program between the University of Aruba and the KU Leuven, Belgium. Her PhD is on social innovation and just resilience in the governance of marine and terrestrial ecosystems in small island social-ecological systems. At the University of Aruba she has prior experience as a lecturer for the course Environmental Science within the Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management Studies (FHTMS), the course Small Island Developing States within the Faculty of Arts and Science program Organization, Governance and Management (FAS-OGM) and is currently a lecturer for the courses Principles of Sustainability as well as Environmental Law and Policy within the Sustainable Island Solutions through Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (SISSTEM) program. Her research has been focused in the fields of environmental sociology, human geography, environmental economics, and sustainability science.