Dr. Vicki Chartrand

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Bishop's University & Director, Centre for Justice Exchange

Colonialism, Community justices, Indigenous incarceration, MMIWG2S+ people, Prison,

Media

Ottawa facing mounting pressure to protect inmates in minister’s absence

MMIWG: The spirit of grassroots justice lives at the heart of the struggle

Staying connected during COVID-19: Remote and hybrid learning models at BU

Broken system: Why is a quarter of Canada’s prison population Indigenous?

What is prison abolition and what does it do for racial justice?

Biography

Vicki Chartrand is a Mama and Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at Bishop’s University, Québec, the traditional and unceded territory of the Abenaki people. She is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa, Criminology Department and founder and Director of the Justice Exchange Research Clinic (https://justiceexchange.ca/) – a centre for collaborative community justices and accountability. Her general research includes penal and carceral politics, modern day colonialism, community justices, and collaborative methodologies. She has over 20 years of experience collaborating with women and children, Indigenous communities, and people in prison. Pm8wzowinnoak Bishop’s kchi adalagakidimek aoak kzalziwi w8banakii aln8baïkik.

Expertise

  • Prison
  • Indigenous incarceration
  • Over-representation of Indigenous people in prison
  • Missing and murdered Indigenous women
  • Grassroots justice