Research Associates
Michael Classens
I am an Assistant Professor – Teaching Stream, in the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto. My teaching, research and advocacy work are broadly motivated by commitments to social and environmental justice, particularly within the context of the food system. My current research agenda has two focus areas: critical sustainability pedagogy, and local food systems transformation.
Michael Classens (he/him)
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
Undergraduate Associate Director
School of the Environment | University of Toronto
Faculty, Culinaria Research Centre
foodandchange.com
Trish Hennessy
Trish is a senior strategist, senior editor, and the Director of the Think Upstream project with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ (CCPA) National Office.
She is focused on social determinants health, sustainable development goals, income inequality, decent work, an inclusive economy, and wellbeing budgeting.
Trish was the founding director of the CCPA Ontario and co-founded the Ontario Living Wage Network. She was the founding director of the CCPA National Office's growing gap project, which began in 2006. Trish was a former newspaper journalist, originally from Saskatchewan but she now lives in Ottawa. She has a B.A. Sociology from Queen's University, a B.S.W. from Carleton University, and an M.A. in Sociology from OISE/University of Toronto.
Robyn Hoogendam
Current position - Manager of Policy and Research
Affiliation - Women's Shelters Canada
Email - rhoogendam@endvaw.ca
Robyn has been working at Women’s Shelters Canada since 2022, where she has lead research on areas like worker wellness, and funding, and engaged in policy issues like the National Action Plan on Gender-based Violence, coercive control, and parental alienation. She holds PhD in Public Policy from Carleton University where she focused on federal funding of anti-violence women’s organizations in Canada. Previously, she worked at the Learning Enrichment Foundation in Toronto as a researcher, and has served as a board member for a number of nonprofit organizations. In her current and past roles in nonprofit organizations, she has been engaged in community-academic partnerships, and contributed to community-engaged research.
D.W. Livingstone
D.W. Livingstone is past Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work and professor emeritus in the Department of Social Justice Education at OISE/UT His recent books include: Professional Power and Skill Use in the “Knowledge Economy: A Class Analysis (Brill, 2021) with Tracey Adams and Peter Sawchuk; and Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism: Class, Class Consciousness and Activism in the Knowledge Economy” (Fernwood, 2023). He was the Head of the Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW) which merged with the Centre of Social Economy headed by Jack Quarter to become CLSEW. He led 2 related research networks: NALL and WALL, now accessible on the CLSEW website. He also initiated the CPEDB being developed at CLSEW by Wally Seccombe.
Email: dwlivingstone@gmail.com
Laurie Mook
Laurie Mook is associate director and associate professor in the School of Community Resources and Development, and research associate at the Lodestar Center for Nonprofit Innovation and Philanthropy, at Arizona State University. Prior to moving to Arizona, Mook was co-director of the Social Economy Centre of the University of Toronto. She is co-author of "What Counts: Social Accounting for Nonprofits and Cooperatives (Sigel Press)," "Understanding the Social Economy: A Canadian Perspective (University of Toronto Press), and "Understanding the Social Economy of the United States (University of Toronto Press)." She is also the Editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, the open-access peer-reviewed academic journal of the Association for Nonprofit and Social Economy Research. Mook's areas of interest are the social economy (nonprofits, co-operatives, and social enterprise), volunteerism, social accounting, curriculum design, and online pedagogy.
