Geneviève Grégoire-Labrecque

Recipient of a Canadian graduate scholarship to honour Nelson Mandela, Geneviève Grégoire-Labrecque is a PhD candidate at Concordia University in an individualized program (Applied Human Sciences, Childhood studies, Social and cultural psychiatry). She is interested in the intersection of children’s participation, diversity and school contexts, as well as children’s rights, participation and wellbeing. Her work explores the transformational potential of everyday participation for young people in high schools in Montreal around two initiatives addressing environment and climate change, through participatory ethnographic methods. She is also working with local partners on the ways young people grow with their city and how to strengthen youth-led community action projects. As her background is in anthropology, she has previously worked in education, health care and social services to further understand how religious, ethnic and cultural diversity influences practitioners and services; in knowledge mobilization and as an intercultural trainer in health care and education systems in Quebec, Canada.