Katharine Dunbar is a sociologist whose research examines how gender, health inequities, substance use, and criminalization shape everyday life in Atlantic Canada and beyond. Working through community-engaged and mixed-methods projects, she foregrounds the emotional and ethical complexities of community work in supporting criminalized women and families, with a focus on harm reduction and FASD-informed practice. She holds a PhD in social and cultural analysis from Concordia University. Dunbar has held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at Wilfrid Laurier University and is currently a McCain Postdoctoral Fellow at Mount Allison University, where her work contributes to community-based harm reduction, FASD prevention, and equity-focused policy initiatives with government and non-profit organizations. Over the past decade, she has worked for fasdNL, leading provincial and Atlantic-wide initiatives. An award-winning educator, she has taught at multiple Canadian universities and is committed to feminist mentorship, experiential learning, and public scholarship that bridges academic research with tangible policy and practice change.