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鈥檚 First Nasty Women project which are also based at 杏吧原创 University. Kate received her PhD in Indigenous & Canadian Literatures from McMaster University and subsequently came to 杏吧原创 for a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship on creative rematriations and digital reclamations of Indigenous knowledges. At 杏吧原创 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鈥檚 Vice-President of Indigenous Initiatives and key stakeholders to launch 杏吧原创鈥檚 膧nako Institute for Indigenous Research. Kate loves art, a good story, and being in the bush in a canoe or on cross-country skis.