The Tools for Community-First Community Campus Partnerships Working Group is expanding its leadership team with two new project partners. Enthusiastically joining Natasha Pei (Vibrant Communities Canada) are Adje van de Sande (Carleton University) and Kate Garvie (Deep Roots Food Hub). Their passion for improving access to quality community-based research is deeply valued as we head into the next three years, and we especially look forward to forming a working relationship with the Centre for Studies on Poverty and Social Citizenship. Learn more about Adje and Kate here:
Adje van de Sande was born in the Netherlands and raised in Montreal. He is an Associate Professor with the School of Social Work at Carleton University. He is the principal author of Statistics for Social Justice: A Structural Approach, published in 2015, and Research for Social Justice: A Community-Based Approach, published in 2011. He is the Chair of the Centre for Studies on Poverty and Social Citizenship, the Research Centre for the School of Social Work. He teaches Research Methods and Statistics at the undergraduate and graduate levels with a focus on community-based participatory research. Over the past 10 years, he has supervised over 60-student led research projects in Eastern Ontario as part of the graduate social work research course. He has presented at numerous national and international conferences on the topic of community-based participatory research.
Kate Garvie is a Project Coordinator for the Deep Roots Food Hub in Ottawa’s rural ward of West Carleton. The food hub is working to reduce geographic and economic food insecurity by building a community root cellar, developing a distribution network for local foods, and offering educational workshops. Before moving to Ottawa, Kate helped run a CSA and market garden near Campbellford, ON. Kate’s background is in environmental studies and international development. Her master’s research was conducted in partnership with Treaty 8 First Nations on environmental injustices caused by rapid shale gas development in northeastern BC. Kate is passionate about building inclusive social movements and is excited to be working with other changemakers on the CFICE project.