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Dr. Emily Regan Wills

Assistant professor, Political Studies | University of Ottawa

Migrants, Migration, Refugees, Borders, Diasporas and Remittances, Feminist politics and theory, Globalization, Immigration, Transnationalism, United States, The Arab Middle East, Lebanon, Palestine/Israel, Egypt, Kuwait, Social movements

Dr. Erica Carleton

Associate Professor, Hill and Levene Schools of Business | University of Regina

Leadership, Leader Well-Being, Physiological and Psychological Predictors of Well-Being, Sleep, Gender and Leadership

Amara Possian

Canada Team Lead | 350.org

green new deal, climate change, third party election campaigns, strategic voting, advocacy and public affairs, democracy and civic participation

Holly Mathias

PhD Student | University of Alberta

rural health, substance use, drug overdose crisis, toxic drug crisis, rural communities, gender, public health

Sonja Solomun

Research Director and PhD Candidate | Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, McGill University

digital platforms, social media, technology governance, platform governance, digital democracy, politics and history of tech, facial recognition technology, algorithmic bias, platform polarization