Eranga K. Galappaththi

Eranga K. Galappaththi

Virginia Tech

Eranga K. Galappaththi serves as assistant professor in Virginia Tech’s department of geography. He is also founding director of the Indigenous Resilience and Innovation Lab.

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Three Sri Lankan men sit under a tree

What Indigenous communities taught me about meaningful collaboration

The most significant research partnerships begin when universities stop treating communities as research subjects and data sources and start treating them as co‑creators of knowledge

Eranga K. Galappaththi

Virginia Tech