Cecily Nicholson speaks about her relationship with education and research, and shares some examples of community-based research practices that she’s worked with: Red Women Rising, the Open Access Foundation for Arts & Culture (OAFAC), and Emma’s Acres. Cecily Nicholson is the author of Triage, From the Poplars, winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and Wayside Sang, which won the Governor General's award for English-language poetry. She is a community member of the Research Ethics Board for Emily Carr University of Art + Design, volunteers with people impacted by carcerality, and works in gallery education. Cecily was the 2021 Writer-in-Residence for the University of Windsor. "Engaging themes of reciprocity and responsibility, my comments will foreground innovations manifest in projects such as Red Women Rising, the social enterprise Emma’s Acres, and the pandemic-era cultural organization Open Access Foundation for Arts & Culture. What local interventions are leading collaborative and relevant knowledge production—what research advances decolonial, abolitionist, and disability justice futures—and how do institutions generate liberatory practices after all this time?" - Cecily Nicholson
