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Space-Makers

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Lindsay Eales

Lindsay Eales (they/she) is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport and Recreation at the University of Alberta. They work to craft Mad-, fat-, disability-, queer- and trans-affirming trauma-informed movement and performance communities. They do this by weaving life experience and professional practice with research-creation methodologies. Their passions include teaching, choreographing, and performing disability-centered dance, Mad performance art, and crip video art. They are the Programming Director of Solidance Inclusive Recreation Society, a founder and former artistic director of CRIPSiE, and a certified occupational therapist with over 20 years of specialized disability and integrated dance training.
Contact: leales (at) ualberta.ca
www.lindsayeales.ca

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Danielle Peers

Danielle Peers (they/them) is a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Disability and Movement Cultures, and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta. Peers studies how movement cultures (including art, recreation, and sport) can be used to transmit and transform a community’s values, politics, and (in)equities. Mobilizing embodied disability justice approaches, Peers prioritizes deep, intersectional collaborations in order to co-create knowledges and practices that reduce harm and create more accessible, affirming, and transformative movement cultures. Danielle’s work draws from their experiences as a Paralympic athlete, coach, dancer, and filmmaker.

Contact: peers (at) ualberta.ca
www.daniellepeers.com

Space-Holders

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Taniya S. Nagpal

Taniya completed her PhD from The University of Western Ontario followed by a Post-Doctoral Fellowship with The University of Ottawa and Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada. Her research program explores psychosocial factors, such as weight stigma, and the relationship with biopsychosocial outcomes and adherence to health behaviours like physical activity in the reproductive years (preconception, pregnancy, postpartum). Applying an intersectional lens, this research specifically aims to understand and conceptualize experiences of stigma (e.g., sources of stigma, person-informed strategies to reduce stigma) individuals may encounter in the reproductive years, and among those who may have intersecting stigmatized identities or biopsychological health conditions. Working closely with maternal healthcare providers, another key goal of this research program is to develop and test resources and continuing education opportunities that amplify patient voices to improve quality of sensitive and respectful care. Taniya was born in India and immigrated with her family to Canada in 1996. As a first generation Canadian to pursue academia in her family, she is grateful for the opportunities had in higher education and in addition to research, she is also passionate about being engaged in activities that aim to promote and improve accessibility to research opportunities for students who are from underrepresented backgrounds. If not in the office or teaching, she can be found spending time with family, at yoga, hiking, or watching Harry Potter and Disney movies.

Megan is sitting cross-legged on a sage green rug in front of a tan couch. She has short brown hair and is wearing thick black-framed glasses, a light blue t-shirt, and dark pants. She is snuggling her sandy-coloured terrier, named Winnie, with her other tan-coloured bully-breed dog, named Goose, sitting in front of them.

Megan Smorschok

Megan (she/they) is a second year PhD student (supervised by Dr. Lindsay Eales) who is interested in examining anti-fat bias in kinesiology education using a transformative justice and trauma-informed lens. She is particularly drawn to arts-based and participatory methodologies that prioritize building community through meaningful connection. Megan is lucky enough to be the mother of four fur babies and one skin baby (ew, but in all seriousness her daughter is adorable). If you see Megan in the wild, she will likely be covered in animal hair or peanut butter fingerprints… but probably both.

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Nathan Viktor Fawaz

Nathan Viktor Fawaz (they/them) is a PhD student in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta and a Trainee with both the Re-Creation Collective and the NSERC SMART-CREATE Program. Their primary area of focus is to participate in the application and advancement of liberation kinesiology to inform a politics and poetics of individual and collective interbeing that is affirming, equitable, non-exiling, and postpathological. To support this work, Fawaz draws upon their experiences and previous study of literature, pedagogy, and fine arts.

****Our Community includes many wonderful folks not on this page. If you are a Just Movements CreateSpace member, and would like your bio on this page, please send your information to Danielle***