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Jessica Marion Barr and Jenn Cole
Jessica Marion Barr (she/her) is a mother and an Assistant Professor at Trent University. An artist-researcher of Scottish (Fraser and other clans), English, various European, and matrilineal Haudenosaunee (Six Nations near Niagara Falls) ancestry, her interdisciplinary arts-based practice explores creative, collaborative, and embodied approaches to issues around climate change, species decline, ecological grieving, care, and social/ecological justice. At Trent, she teaches integrated and studio arts in the Cultural Studies Department, including an ecological art workshop; she is also Program Coordinator in the Honours Bachelor of Arts and Science Program, where she teaches interdisciplinary justice-focused courses. | Jenn Cole is mixed ancestry Algonquin Anishinaabe from Kiji Sibi watershed territory. She is Assistant Professor of Indigenous Performance and Gender at Trent University, Artistic Director for Nozhem First Peoples Performance Space and editor for Canadian Theatre Review's Views and Reviews. She is an artist, scholar and mother focused on connection with Lands and waters in ways that lift up the lifeways of her ancestors.