Team and Board of Directors

Amanda Wilson (she/her) – President

Professor in the School of Social Innovation at Saint Paul University. Her areas of research include the food movement and carceral food systems, co-operatives and collective organizing, and questions related to prefiguration and enacting a politics of possibility. Outside of academia, she has worked with several non-governmental organizations in the areas of policy analysis, research, network coordination and popular education, and is a long-time community organizer and activist in Ottawa.

Julie Paquette (she/her) – Treasurer:

Professor at the School of Social Innovation at Saint Paul University.

Krys Maki (they/them) – Board Member

Krys holds a PhD in Sociology. Their areas of research include feminist movements, collective organizing around gender-based violence, poverty and social inequality, and critical surveillance studies. Before joining the School of Social Innovation at Saint Paul University they completed a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa on labour organizing and movement building within women’s shelters. In 2021, they published their first book Ineligible: Single Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance with Fernwood Publishing. Outside of academia, Krys worked as the Director of Research and Policy at Women’s Shelters Canada, a national non-profit network of violence against women shelters (2017-2022). Their activist scholarship is deeply informed by their work as a long-time organizer and activist with labour, anti-poverty, and feminist movements.

Jennifer Bruce (she/her) – Board Member

Jenn Bruce is a PhD Candidate in the Interdisciplinary Research on Contemporary Social Issues program at Saint Paul University in Ottawa. Her doctoral research looks at how non-profit organizations can use a disability justice framework to deepen their impact and contribute to social change. Her professional background includes 6 years working in the disability sport sector in areas such as collective impact, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. She continues to engage and work with the non-profit sector on strategy development and organizational change.

Michaël Séguin (he/his) – Board Member

Michaël Séguin is a professor at the School of Leadership, Ecology and Equity at Saint Paul University.

Pierre Antoine Lafon Simard (he/him) – Board Member