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Kate Higginson

Project Manager

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Kate (she/her) is a cis white settler living in Ottawa on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg nations. She is the Project Manager for the Transgender Media Lab, as well as for the Morrisseau 1955-85 Project and the Cinema’s First Nasty Women project which are also based at Carleton University. Kate received her PhD in Indigenous & Canadian Literatures from McMaster University and subsequently came to Carleton for a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship on creative rematriations and digital reclamations of Indigenous knowledges. At Carleton she has taught undergraduate courses on Canadian and Indigenous literatures, served as the Research Manager and Communications Director for the international Great Lakes Research Alliance on Indigenous Arts and Cultures (GRASAC), and recently worked with the university’s Vice-President of Indigenous Initiatives and key stakeholders to launch Carleton’s Ānako Institute for Indigenous Research. Kate loves art, a good story, and being in the bush in a canoe or on cross-country skis.