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Evelyn Encalada Grez is a transnational labour scholar and community-labour organizer committed to critical sociology and decolonial theories. She co-founded the award-winning collective Justice for Migrant Workers (J4MW), which advocates for the rights of migrant farmworkers in Canada. Her research bridges grassroots activism and academic scholarship, focusing on the experiences of precarious workers in a global economy. Encalada Grez has extensively documented the lives of Mexican migrant farmworker women, examining how they forge transnational livelihoods between rural Canada and rural Mexico. She has contributed to public sociological discourse through media documentaries and has presented her research at notable venues, including Parliament Hill and the United Nations. Her commitment to decolonizing transformative pedagogies drives her work with immigrant and working-class communities. Encalada Grez aims to inspire changes in public policy and community engagement through her research and teaching.
Simon Fraser University • Burnaby, BC
Assistant professor in the Labour Studies Program.
Department of Philosophy