No one has time to read a whole curriculum vitae. Here are a few of the things I’m most proud to share. Some are prestigious, yes, but most are things that meant the most to me, changed my life in some way, or is labour that most closely reflects my values. It’s not always what nondisabled capitalist logics consider my “best.”
Writing
“Challenging Academic Ableism by Cripping Pandemic Learning” co-authored with Danielle E. Lorenz, Reading Sociology: Unsettling a Settler Colonial Project & Re/writing Sociological Narratives, ed. Johanne Jean-Pierre, et al. | Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2022.
“No Airline Mask Mandate Means Disabled People Like Me Are More Isolated Than Ever” in Teen Vogue, 11 May 2022
“I do not know how many more times I can beg for my life. I am enraged by how much the people I love have had to beg for theirs. We cannot “just stay home” to make way for non-disabled comfort, entertainment, and profit. I stubbornly refuse to make myself, to make the people I love, small enough to just get out of the way, to make room for a eugenic, capitalist ‘normal.’”
“Reflections on Disability and (Dis)Rupture in Pandemic Learning” with Danielle E. Lorenz in Active History, 21 October 2021.
Disabled graduate students are enmeshed in an epidemic of invisibilized labour. This pandemic has only exacerbated what was a pre-existing crisis. Universities are, in fact, thieves, stealing our time and labour in order to hide their ongoing violence against us. We perform vital access work that the university claims as its own. Our exploitation hollows us out, lifts our ways of being and knowing that are so vibrant and destabilizing to the institution out of our bones until we are cracked open and unable to continue. So, we leave, because we have taken too much time. We have used too many resources. We have tried too much patience and good will.
Speaking Engagements
HISTORICAL QUESTIONS, CONTEMPORARY STRUGGLES: A roundtable of historian-activists | with Travis Hay, Sean Carleton, Elizabeth Best, Mercedes Peters, & Désirée Rochat | Chair: Johanna Lewis | 17 May 2022 | Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting
THEORIZING ACADEMIC CRIP DOULAS & CARE THEFT: An Autoethnographic Approach | with Danielle Lorenz | 28 January 2022 | EDPSGSA University of Alberta
Allyship: What Does this Really Mean? | Office of Regional and International Community Engagement | University of British Columbia | 26 January 2022
Cripping Crisis Learning: Access & Community in TA Labour | Teaching Assistant Training for UBC Department of History (7 September 2021)
Holding Crip Space in Anti-Crip Place(s): ORICE Anti-Oppressive Training | Workshop for Office of Regional and International Community Engagement at UBC (25 August 2021)
Voices of Access and Disability in Higher Education (Part 2): Opportunities for Change (24 July 2020)
For transcript of the panel, click here.
Favorite Jobs
COMMUNICATIONS & COMMUNITY RELATIONS MANAGER
Stigma & Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre | Vancouver, BC | 2022-Present
PROGRAM ASSISTANT
Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture | Vancouver, BC | 2022-Present
EDUCATION CONSULTANT | Creating Accessible Neighbourhoods | 2022-2023
GENDER+ RESEARCH GUIDE DEVELOPER (GRADUATE ACADEMIC ASSISTANT)
Office of Regional & International Community Engagement | University of British Columbia | Vancouver, BC | May 2021-May 2022
GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT | University of British Columbia | Faculty of Arts | Department of History | 2019-2021
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Campus Suicide Prevention Center of Virginia | Harrisonburg, VA | 2019
In the News
As It Happens interview with Chris Howden (20 July 2022)
CTV News with Ashkay Tandon (20 July 2022)
“‘Surviving just by the skin of my teeth’: Students face high inflation for first time“
Interview with Tara Deschamps for The Canadian Press (20 July 2022)
The Broadscast: Hockey is Not for Everyone ft. Hannah Sullivan Facknitz (20:26-45:30)
“Medicaid expansion proposal offers hope to those who fall in insurance gap”
21 Feb 2018 feature with WHSV’s Jared Kline
“Vigil for the Affordable Care Act in Harrisonburg”
29 June 2017 interview with WMRA’s Christopher Clymer Kurtz
Service, Consultation, & Collaboration
Nastya Mozolevych
“Community Care Module”
UBC Human Rights Collective (2022) – Consultant
Iris Xie, MFA
“I Am True to My Oscillations.”
UC Davis (2022)
Image description author and collaborator with Sarah Cavar for Iris Xie’s final MFA gallery.
“Cripping Pandemic Learning in Higher Education: Resources for Instructors”
developed by Hannah S. Facknitz and Danielle Lorenz
Collaborative project that centers the needs of disabled students in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in four parts.
Canadian Journal of Disability Studies (2020)
https://bit.ly/PandemicSyllabiCJDS
Beyond COVID – Teaching With Care & Compassion Committee
University of British Columbia (Summer 2021)
“LET’S TALK ABOUT STIGMA REDUCTION!”
Event Planning Committee
Pacific AIDS Network (11 June 2021)
Rachel Cheang
“Beyond Accommodations: Accessible University Education for Disabled Students in British Columbia”
LEVEL Youth Policy Program (2020) – Consultant
Awards
J. William Fulbright International Scholarship, Fulbright Canada 2019-2020
Phi Kappa Phi Best Thesis Award, James Madison University, 2018
Demetric Walker Memorial Scholarship, James Madison University, Department of History, 2013
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