Christina Foisy is an author, academic and artist with a PhD in Health Humanities from York University (Toronto). From grassroots community health organizing to advocating for equity policy and system change in large-scale institutions: Christina is a creative thought-leader with a passion for listening deeply and meaningfully to those most impacted by a particular issue or cause. She has published original research in the field of ethics, health equity, peer-based sexual health education, life writing, memory studies, Mad studies and grief studies. Her poetry, lyrical essays and collages have appeared in print in the following literary journals: Abstract, Contemporary Expressions, Open Minds Quarterly, POEISIS, and Canadian Women’s Studies.