Dr. Evelyn Encalada Grez

Biography

Evelyn Encalada Grez is a transnational labour scholar and community-labour organizer committed to critical sociology and decolonial theories. She focuses on the knowledge production that centers on diverse ways of knowing precarious workers’ experiences at the margins of the global economy. She is a co-founder of the award-winning collective, Justice for Migrant Workers, advocating for the rights of migrant farmworkers in Canada for over a decade. Her research bridges grassroots activism with academic scholarship, leading to extensive documentation of the lives of Mexican migrant farmworker women who navigate and forge transnational livelihoods between rural Canada and rural Mexico. As a public sociologist, she mobilizes her research through media and documentaries and has spoken at various venues, including the Parliament Hill and the United Nations in New York. She has also been involved in teaching travel courses to university students across six countries and is driven by her commitment to the immigrant working-class experience and transformative pedagogies.

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