Feed Your Mind Lecture: Advancing the Right to the City Through Participatory, Intersectional Policy Development

Fri. Sep. 27 11:30 AM - Fri. Sep. 27 12:30 PM
Contact: global.college@uwinnipeg.ca
Location: 1MS25, Global College

Join us on Friday, September 27th from 11:30 am- 12:30 pm for our first Feed Your Mind lecture of the year! 

Speaker: Dr. Leah Levac

Drawing primarily on a recently-concluded collaborative community-driven policy analysis with the District of Kitimat (BC), in unceded x̄á’isla territory, this talk will explore opportunities and challenges for advancing more participatory, equitable public policy processes and outcomes at the municipal level.

About the Speaker:

Leah Levac holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Critical Community Engagement and Public Policy. She has been a faculty member in the department of political science at the University of Guelph since 2013. Her research collaborations focus on intersections between wellbeing and public engagement, and the framing and development of public policy, both at the municipal level, and federally in relation to resource extraction. She has been involved in several research projects about the intersectional impacts of public policies, and about possibilities for advancing more just policy processes and outcomes. She teaches courses in community engagement, public policy, and political participation. Before moving to Guelph, Leah served as a city councillor in Fredericton, NB.

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to global.college@uwinnipeg.ca.