queer Experts

Karen Busby

Professor of Law & Director, Centre for Human Rights ResearchUniversity of Manitoba

Karen Busby teaches Constitutional Law, Gender and the Law, Human Rights and Administrative Law

Tiffany Muller Myrdahl

Urbanist and Feminist GeographerSimon Fraser University

Specializes in equity and inclusion. Uses policy analysis and collaborative research with women and LGBTQ people to examine urban change.

Michael Mendez

Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Public PolicyUC Irvine

Michael Mendez has experience in the public and private sectors, where he consulted and actively engaged in the policymaking process.

Adam Barbu

Independent Writer and CuratorMiddlebrook Prize Winners

Winner of the 2015 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators

Jongwoo Jeremy Kim

Associate ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

Jongwoo Jeremy Kim is a historian of modern and contemporary art.

Kyra Pearson

Associate Professor, Rhetoric and Cultural Studies & Associate Chair, Communication StudiesLMU College of Communication and Fine Arts

Barbara Mennel

ProfessorUniversity of Florida

Barbara Mennel’s research interests are transnational cinematic practices and the intersection of urban studies and film studies.

Morgan Rowe

Associate LawyerRavenlaw

Morgan Rowe is a lawyer working in the areas of employment, labour and human rights, with a focus on disability rights law.

Leigh Potvin

Assistant Professor, Community StudiesCape Breton University

Educator, activist, academic. Interests: straight privilege, urban farming, backyard chickens, fat activism & active transportation.

Vince Rozario

CuratorMiddlebrook Prize Winners

Vince Rozario is an curator focusing on issues of decolonizing the canon, multiple modernities, queer diasporas, and transnational futures.