Jessica Hutchison, Research Associate

I am a white settler activist-scholar pursuing my PhD in social work at Wilfrid Laurier University. My research explores the gendered, racialized, and colonial impacts of strip searching in women’s prisons. I have been a prisoners’ rights advocate for nearly 15 years and teach in social work and critical criminology. I am also a Project Coordinator with the Centre for Indigegogy and am deeply committed to dismantling colonial systems that perpetuate harm and violence.