Jordyn Sheldon

Title: Instructor - Winter 2025
Email: jo.sheldon@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Jordyn Sheldon is a PhD student in Environmental Studies and Urban Change at York University. An interdisciplinary scholar and organizer, their work spans harm reduction, abolition geography, transformative justice, and critical urban ecologies. Their research examines how while infrastructures of racial capitalism and settler colonialism shape health and community wellbeing, transformative justice practices like harm reduction and abolition continue to take shape and offer pathways of resistance and healing. An alum of the Human Rights program, Jordyn has developed education programs with the Manitoba Association for Rights and Liberties, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, and Food Matters Manitoba, and has taught in the Urban and Inner-City Studies, Gender Studies, and Rhetoric and Communications departments at the University of Winnipeg.

Jordyn has also worked with the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network, where they created liberatory harm reduction curricula and led training and policy initiatives across the province. Their work is guided by the reciprocity and generosity of spirit learned from the Anishinaabe and Nehiyaw on Treaty 1, shaping all aspects of their teaching, research, and advocacy. Grounded in a love for the people, places, and possibilities that drive transformative change, Jordyn is committed to bridging scholarship and action to foster justice, hope, and care.

Courses:
HR-2200-003/ HIST-2512-003 History of Human Rights in Canada