March 13, 2020 Re: COVID-19 and poverty-class students Dear Canadian University Leaders: I write to you with fingertips quivering over the keyboard. I do not want to further expose myself to ridicule and shame. Yet, I must publicly come out of the social underclass closet because this situation is far more important than my shamed…
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Graphic design for impact
You’ve done the research. You don’t want it to collect dust on the shelf. You want it to make a difference. But you’re used to the academic status quo knowledge mobilization. This is where graphic design makes a difference. I am a researcher and graphic designer. I use the power of design to make research…
Maybe now we can finally say it out loud — social class matters; poverty shapes an entire life
Put aside, for the moment, statistics and claims about declining rates of poverty in Canada. Poverty becomes part of individual and collective embodied beings. I know this because I come from generational poverty.
Dr. Elaine J Laberge 