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Dr. Lynn Gehl

Indigenous/Indigenist Cultural Critic, Writer, Author | Independent

Indigenist Cultural Critic

Jill Scott

Vice-Provost (Teaching and Learning) and Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures | Queen's University

Dr. Scott has worked as professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and as Vice-Provost (Teaching and Learning).

Cicely McWilliam

Director | Save the Children

Children's rights and LGBTQ1 rights

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Jennifer Andrews

Professor, Department of English | University of New Brunswick

Jennifer Andrews’s areas of interest include nineteenth- and twentieth-century English-Canadian and American literature

Dr. Tracy Bear

Director of the McMaster Indigenous Research Institute | McMaster University

Social justice, prison abolition, contemporary Indigenous art, Indigenous literature, women's studies, gender studies, Native studies, Indigenous articulations of sensuality, sexuality and gender, decolonization, film studies, Indigenous eroticanalysis