Haleakala Angus, Project Content Leader

Haleakala is a M.A. student in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy program at the University of Guelph, where she also completed her undergraduate degree in Criminal Justice and Public Policy. Haleakala is currently working on a major research paper for her Master's degree which looks at race and the criminal justice system. Specifically, she is interested in how drug legislation has disproportionately affected minority populations. Throughout her studies, Haleakala has also become interested in the issue of violence against women and is currently volunteering for the FWP and the Women's Centre of Halton.

Ciara Boyd, Project Team Leader

Ciara is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Guelph. Her research focuses on understanding different types of gender-based violence, with a concentration on mass killings and familicides. With Dr. Myrna Dawson as her supervisor, Ciara’s M.A. thesis used a gendered theoretical framework to compare the characteristics of domestic and non-domestic mass killings in Ontario, Canada, a project she is expanding nationally in her PhD research. Ciara also works on various research projects at the Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence, including the #CallItFemicide reports.

Myrna Dawson, Senior Advisor and Project Lead

Myrna is a Professor of Sociology and Research Leadership Chair, College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, University of Guelph, Canada. She is the Founder and Director of the Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence (www.violenceresearch.ca) and the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice & Accountability (www.femicideincanada.ca). A former Canada Research Chair in Public Policy in Criminal Justice (2008-2018), Dawson has spent more than two decades researching social and legal responses to violence with emphasis on violence against women, children, femicide and filicide. Learn more about Myrna...

Sebastian Delius, Digital Strategist and IT Developer

Sebastian has been working as a data architect, consultant and software developer since 2006. He founded his own company enlightenment* in 2015 and has worked closely with Henrike ever since. With a background in the humanities and social science, his special interests are data infrastructure, data analysis, statistical analysis, and data visualization. He has worked for several ministries in Germany and Europe as well as think tanks, academic institutions, and businesses. In his understanding, translating scientific and practice-oriented problems into the digital language is at the core of his work.

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Ashley Ethier, Student Editor

Ashley is a current MA Sociology student at the University of Guelph. Under the supervision of Myrna Dawson, Ashley’s research focuses on examining same-sex intimate partner violence using Domestic Violence Death Review Committees (DVDRC) to assess cultural competency. Ashley holds a BA in English and Sociology with a double minor in Education and Women and Gender Studies from Wilfrid Laurier University. She also works as a research assistant for Myrna Dawson at The Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence.

Olivia Ho, Communication Manager

Olivia is an undergraduate student at the University of Guelph, pursuing an Honors Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice and Public Policy. Outside of volunteering with  FWP, she has been part of the University of Guelph’s Criminal Justice and Public Policy Society as Social Media Coordinator. As Social Media Intern for FWP, her role involves bringing the discussion of femicide to the forefront online. 

Haley Hutchinson, Student Editor

Haley is currently completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Guelph with a major in Sociology and minor in Political Science. Her degree focuses on a wide range of sociological and legal issues that arise in Canada and elsewhere, such as femicide and gender rights related issues. Alongside volunteering as a Student Editor for the Femicide Watch Platform, Haley has dedicated her time to support a local law firm and assists attorneys with analyzing criminal legal cases.

Ella Lake, Student Editor

Ella is currently pursuing an Honours Bachelor of Arts  program at the University of Guelph, with a focus on Justice and Legal Studies, specializing in Business and Management, and a minor in Project Management. She is also completing a Certificate in Leadership through the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics. Outside the Femicide Watch Platform, Ella is part of the University of Guelph's Pre-Law Society executive team, serving as the Peer Mentorship Coordinator and previously as the Diversity Outreach Commissioner. Throughout her post-secondary education, she has actively engaged in diverse coursework and research projects, with a particular focus on exploring femicide and related social justice issues.

Henrike Landré, Co-Founder and Digital Project Leader

Henrike has been working as a consultant in the U.S. and Europe since 1999. Running her own business Coconets since 2007, she has conceptualized and realized over 20 knowledge hubs for academia, businesses, think tanks, NGOs, international organizations – many of which in cooperation with Sebastian. She specializes on digital innovation techniques such as curation, contextualization, visualization, and communication. With a Ph.D. in political science, she has an encompassing expertise of global, UN-focused issues. She founded the UN Studies Association 15 years ago and the Femicide Watch Platform in 2017.

Andie Rexdiemer, Quality Manager

Andie (she/her) holds a master's degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy from the University of Guelph. Reflective of her passion for social justice and intersectional feminist action, her research explored incel-motivated femicide in Canada, and the rise of right-wing extremism and tech-facilitated GBV. She completed her Honours B.A. in Global Development studies at Queen's University, with a focus on gender roles within the neoliberal political economy and Indigenous peoples’ human rights. As a former Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Task Force member, she advocated for safer campuses for survivors of sexual assault and guided trauma-informed policy amendments. Areas of interest include disability justice, reproductive justice, anti-colonial resistance, and 2S/LGBTQ+ rights and empowerment.

Angelika Zecha, Platform / Digital Manager

Angelika is a Master of Public Health student at the University of Waterloo. Angelika also holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy from the University of Guelph. Her research examined the role of firearms in Canadian homicides, with a focus on the contexts of rural intimate partner homicides. She works at the Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence on initiatives relating to femicide and domestic homicide, including the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability. 

Abigail Mitchell, Former Communication Manager

Abigail is a graduate student at the University of Guelph completing her Masters in Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy. She has a BSc in Forensic Science, and her current research is on forensic pathologists' decision-making processes in cases of sexual femicide. Outside of volunteering with the FWP, Abigail serves as a student representative on her university's Sexual Violence Advisory Committee for Students and is working as a research assistant for the Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence.

Saide Mobayed, Co-Founder and Former Project Lead

Saide is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Cambridge where she works with the intersections between violence against women and girls, globalisation, and digital technologies. Her PhD dissertation looks into how feminicide is globally counted and locally contested by zooming-in on practices of data collection and data activism in Mexico. Saide holds an interdisciplinary Erasmus Mundus M.A. in Global Studies from the University of Leipzig and the University of Vienna and a B.A. in Communication Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Learn more about Saide...

Jasmine Sanfilippo, Former Student Editor

Jasmine completed her B.A. honours degree from the University of Guelph with a major in Psychology. Under the supervision of Dr. Myrna Dawson, her research was focused on coding sex and gender related motives and indicators (SGRMIs) from media and court documents related to the killings of women and girls in Canada, in hopes to identify any that align with the parameters of femicide. She is also currently volunteering with the FWP to provide updated and relevant content to help educate on the topic of femicide. 

Helen Hemblade, Former Project Lead 

Helen has a decade of multi-sector experience in communications, writing and publishing. She is currently based at the UN in Vienna and is studying for a master's degree in Social Policy and Public Policy at the University of York, UK, where she focuses on comparative welfare regime analysis in the context of male-perpetrated intimate partner femicide. She has a B.A. in French Linguistics and Cultural Studies from the University of London's Institute in Paris. As part of ACUNS and UNSA Vienna, she has coordinated the FEMICIDE volumes since 2017.