Natalie Kivell, Senior Research Associate

Natalie Kivell is an Assistant Professor in Community Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University. Dr. Kivell’s research is grounded in methodologies and epistemologies of resistance. She seeks to understand the ways in which community driven and participatory knowledge construction and theory building can resist and dismantle the rigidities of the academy. Grounded in critical frameworks of abolition, disability justice, and radical care Dr. Kivell uses qualitative, participatory, and action oriented research to bear witness to, document, and catalyze transformation in social movement and grassroots activist spaces.