Rana El Kadi

Research Associate

Rana is a community-based researcher with a passion for the arts. As Research Associate on the Accessing the Arts project, she is working with communities with lived experiences of disability and difference across Canada to co-create and co-design digital solutions that make difference discoverable and vital. She is also the Research Lead on Direct[Message], an intergenerational research and development project that aims to make the arts more accessible and inclusive for older adults through digital technology. During her Ph.D. program, Rana collaboratively designed and facilitated ethnomusicology programs with racialized immigrant and refugee youth around the issues of cultural inclusion and anti-racism education in junior high schools. She is the co-founder and curator of Emergent Futures CoLab, a transnational collective of artists, scholars, and activists who work on collaborative projects that channel uncertainty and reimagine more equitable futures with their communities.