Julia E. Janes is a disabled, white, settler associate professor of social work at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, situated on the unceded lands of the Beothuk and Mi’kmaq and home to Innu and Inuit. Julia’s scholarship and activisms centre decolonizing, anti-carceral, and mad praxes, community/university engagements — particularly with Indigenous communities, social work as harm reduction, arts-infused social justice working, and critical and poststructural methodologies and theories. Janes coalized and co-conspired in decolonial movements with the now closed Centre for Indigegogy. Julia supports the delivery of an Inuit-centred BSW in partnership with Nunavut Arctic College and the development of an Innu-centred BSW partnership with the Innu Nation. When the ice melts, she can be found swimming in the cool waters of Ktaqmkuk and Rama First Nation.


