POSITIONALITY

• Pronouns are she/her/hers

• My 1st language is English

• Caucasian decent, a settler of English and Irish ancestors

• I live in Caledon in a very middle-class town in the traditional territory of the Anishinabek, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Ojibway/Chippewa people, the land that is home to the Metis, and most recently, the territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit 1st Nation who are direct descendants of the Missassaugas of the Credit.

• I hold a diploma; a degree and I am part way through a masters program

• I am an able-bodied female

• Member of a dual income household, living in an upper middle-class lifestyle

• Raised with Christian values though I do not consider myself religious

• Raised in a financially stable household free from food and housing insecurities

My background has afforded me unearned privilege in many aspects.