Katherine Scott (she/her) is a Senior Researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Follow her on Twitter @ScottKatherineJ.

Catherine Bryan is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Dalhousie University and the chair of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Nova Scotia Office’s Research Advisory Committee.

María José Yax-Fraser is an artivist, a scholarly and community research practitioner, and community leader. She has worked in migration and settlement services for more than twenty-five years. María José is a founding member of the Immigrant Migrant Women’s Association of Halifax (IMWAH) and is a strong advocate of gender equality, equity and the advancement of immigrant and migrant women. She is a PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology at York University. Her academic interest is on the cross-cultural mothering experiences of immigrant and migrant mothers.

Niall Harney (he/him) holds the Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives–Manitoba.

Trish Hennessy (she/her) is a senior communications strategist with the CCPA national office and director of its Think Upstream project. She co-founded the CCPA’s national growing gap project and the CCPA’s Ontario office.

Alice Mũrage is a researcher with the Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society (PIPPS) and the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University.

Michelle Travis is the research director of UNITE HERE Local 40, a union representing workers throughout B.C., most of whom work in the accommodation and food services sector.