Amanda Wilson

Amanda Wilson is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Innovation at Saint Paul University. She holds a PhD in Sociology, with a Specialization in Political Economy. Her areas of research include the food movement and carceral food systems, co-operatives and collective organizing, and questions related to prefiguration and enacting a politics of possibility. Outside of academia, she has worked with several non-governmental organizations in the areas of policy analysis, research, network coordination and popular education, and is a long-time community organizer and activist in Ottawa.