Michele Lawson

Michele Lawson

PhD Student

Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies

Film and Media

71mkl@queensu.ca

Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts

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Michele Lawson is an internationally recognized journalist and social justice media producer. Since graduating from Queen鈥檚 University with a BAH in Film, she has worked primarily in the charitable sector advocating on behalf of highly vulnerable individuals. As an MA student, she is interested in the ethics of representation and consent as it pertains to engaging those with lived experience in social justice media projects and programs. Her current focus includes building a case for supporting social change to help abandoned children in Muskoka by employing community-based participatory research (CBPR).