Dr. Vicki Chartrand

Assistant Professor, Department Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba & 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

Dr. Vicki Chartrand is a Mama and Assistant Professor in the Sociology and Criminology Department at the University of Manitoba and Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa, Criminology Department. She is the founder and Director of the Centre for Justice Exchange – a research centre for collaborative community justices at Bishop’s University. Her research includes mapping carceral and colonial intersections, unearthing community-based and collaborative justices, and advancing community-engaged scholarship. She has over two decades of experience working with women and children, Indigenous communities, and people in prison.

Expertise

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