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Dr. Deborah Stienstra

Jarislowsky Chair in Families and Work; Director, Live Work Well Research Centre; Professor of Political Science, University of Guelph

Deborah Stienstra holds the Jarislowsky Chair in Families and Work at the University of Guelph, where she is the Director of the Live Work Well Research Centre and Professor of Political Science. She is the author of About Canada: Disability Rights (Fernwood, 2020). Her research and publications explore the intersections of disabilities, gender, childhood, and Indigenousness, identifying barriers to, as well as possibilities for, engagement and transformative change. Her work also contributes to comparative and trans/international research and theory related to intersectional disability rights and justice.

Email: deborah.stienstra@uoguelph.ca