A head and shoulders headshot of Jen Rinaldi, a white woman with brown hair, wearing glasses and a grey blazer, smiling at the camera.

A head and shoulders headshot of Jen Rinaldi, a white woman with brown hair, wearing glasses and a grey blazer, smiling at the camera.

Jen Rinaldi

Dr. Jen Rinaldi is an Assistant Professor in the Legal Studies program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. She earned a Doctoral degree in Critical Disability Studies at York University, where she dissertated on the impact of disability diagnostic technologies on reproductive decision-making. Rinaldi completed her Master’s degree in Philosophy at the University of Guelph, where her thesis research focused on constitutional protections of same-sex marriage. Funded by the Women’s College Hospital, her current work engages with narrative and arts-based methodologies to deconstruct eating disorder recovery, and to re-imagine recovery in relation to queer community.Rinaldi also works in collaboration with Recounting Huronia, a SSHRC-funded arts-based collective that explores and stories traumatic histories of institutionalization.