Dr. Jennifer Shaw is a cultural anthropologist, multimodal ethnographer, and community-based researcher whose work examines migrant labour, transnational care, and social and economic precarity in Canada. She is Associate Professor and the Arts Research Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice at Thompson Rivers University and co-leads the Migrant Care Worker Precarity Project. Her research uses feminist, participatory, and arts-based approaches to explore the intimate and structural dimensions of migration and labour. She is the author of Tender Labour (UBC Press, 2025), a study of migrant youth and transnational family labour.

Dr. Anita Minh is an Assistant Professor at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health. She holds a PhD in Population and Public Health from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and held a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Postdoctoral Fellowship to train at the UBC Department of Sociology and at the University of Washington, Department of Epidemiology. Her research concerns the structural determinants of mental health inequities over the life course. She uses modern methods in social epidemiology and community-centred mixed methods approaches to examine questions that centre educational and employment quality as drivers of race- and gender-based disparities facing under-represented and marginalized populations.

Dr. Alicia Massie is a labour organizer, researcher, and educator. She received her PhD from Simon Fraser University and her academic research work focuses on investigation questions of gender, labour, and power from a feminist political economic lens. She is also a life-long organizer and educator in the labour movement, and is employed at the BC Federation of Labour as a Director.

Dr. Ethel Tungohan is a Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration, Impacts and Activism, and an associate professor in the Department of Politics at York University. In 2023, her book, Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Communities of Care and Movement Building, (University of Illinois Press), won the National Women’s Studies Association First Book Prize. Her book, Containing Diversity: Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century, co-authored with Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Christina Gabriel (University of Toronto Press), was also published in 2023. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Her work in comparative political science compares immigration and labour policies in migrant-receiving and migrant-sending states, as well as social movement responses. 

Rincy Dominic. C. Calamba is our long-time research assistant and recently received her master’s degree from Simon Fraser University. She has a BA in Interdisciplinary American Studies at the University of Tübingen in Germany and a BA in International Studies major in American Studies, with a minor in Sociology from the Ateneo de Davao University in the Philippines. Her research focuses on the labor experiences of Filipino migrant workers in Vancouver and how they resist neocolonial exploitation.

Nina Dang is an MPH candidate for Epidemiology at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health. She holds a BS in Public Health with a concentration in Health Behavior and Health Promotion and a minor in Ethnic Studies from Oregon State University. She has research interests in Asian-American health outcomes and data disaggregation.

Iglika Ivanova is co-Executive Director of the BC Society for Policy Solutions. She brings 17 years of experience analyzing economic and social policy in British Columbia and Canada, having previously served as Senior Economist and Public Interest Researcher with the BC Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) until its closure. Her work focuses on labour market trends, poverty reduction, living wages, precarious work, inequality and public finance, with a commitment to turning economic analysis into actionable policy solutions that promote economic security and justice. Iglika co-directs the Understanding Precarity in BC project. She holds an MA in Economics from the University of British Columbia.