JMI and MIRCI Advisory Board


	Petra Bueskens is a Lecturer in Social Sciences within the School of Counselling at the Australian College of Applied Psychology. She is the editor of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia and the founder of PPMD Therapy. Her edited book Motherhood and Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Sociological and Feminist Perspectives was published in June 2014 by Demeter Press.

	Deborah Byrd is Professor of English and Women's & Gender Studies at Lafayette College, where she also serves as Director of the Center for Community Engagement. She has published on mentoring programs for young low-income moms, on 19th and 20th-century literature, and on feminist, maternal, and community-based learning pedagogy.

	Patti Duncan is an Associate Professor and Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University where she specializes in transnational feminist theories and movements, women of color feminisms, and feminist media studies. She is the author of Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech (Univ. of Iowa Press, 2004), co-producer/director of the documentary film, Finding Face (2009), and co-editor of Mothering in East Asian Communities: Politics and Practices (Demeter Press, 2014). She has published numerous articles about women of color, feminist pedagogies, transnational feminisms, gender and migration, gendered effects of militarism in Asia, and politics of motherhood. Her current research focuses on narratives of rescue, migration, and motherhood in representations of women in the global South.

	Regina Edmonds a clinical psychologist and Professor Emerita at Assumption College, Worcester, MA, USA. She also coordinated Assumption’s Women’s Studies Program for over a decade. Her research focuses on discovering the qualities that characterize successful mother-daughter relationships, the treatment of trauma based disorders, and the cross-cultural experiences of mothers.

	May Friedman lives and works in downtown Toronto. A faculty member in Social Work and Communication and Culture at Ryerson University, May looks at the intersections of non-normative identities, especially in relation to popular culture. Much of May’s research focuses on maternity, inspired in part by her three children.

	Diana L. Gustafson is an Associate Professor of Social Science and Health in the Faculty of Medicine, Division of Community Health and Humanities and affiliate faculty in the Department of Gender Studies at Memorial University, Canada. Her research and teaching focus on health-related social justice issues with a particular interest in mothering and motherwork. She is the co-author of Reproducing women: Family and health across three generations (Fernwood, 2012). She edited two books, Unbecoming mothers: The social production of maternal absence (Routledge, 2005), and Care and consequences: Health care reform: The impact of health care reform (Fernwood, 2000). She edited two special journal issues: one on mothers, health and education for Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal (2008) and another on drug use and health consequences for urban women for Women’s Health and Urban Life Journal (2008). Among the dozens of manuscripts published in journals and books, she authored several book reviews, five of which have been published by JMI/JARM.

	Lyndsay Kirkham is a feminist activist and writer, wearing many hats for Demeter Press, including: designer, copyeditor, and office management. You can find her work both on and offline, including in her new book, Feminist Parenting: From Theory to Life Lived (Spring 2015).

	Andrea O'Reilly is founder and director of MIRCI. Click here to find out more about Andrea.

	Joanna Radbord received a Bachelor of Arts with Highest Honours in Philosophy and Women's Studies in 1992, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1993. She graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1997 and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1999. She is a lawyer with the firm Martha McCarthy and Company. Joanna has worked with Martha since she was a student, and has acted for clients at trial, the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Canada. Joanna assisted Martha with M. v. H., a Supreme Court of Canada decision resulting in the recognition of same-sex relationships in dozens of federal and provincial statutes. She was counsel to a lesbian father in Forrester v. Saliba, a ruling that holds transsexuality to be irrelevant to a child's best interests. She has acted as co-counsel for the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) in cases involving the feminization of poverty, including the spousal support variation case Boston and the retroactive child support case DBS. She was co-counsel to the Ontario and Quebec same sex couples who won the freedom to marry in Halpern and on the Reference re Same-Sex Marriage before the Supreme Court. Joanna also appeared as counsel in Rutherford, achieving immediate legal recognition for lesbian mothers, and represented the Rutherford families as intervener counsel in A.A. v. B.B. v. C.C., the case allowing recognition of three parents in law. Joanna also assisted LEAF with interventions in the Charter challenge of Little Sisters v, Canada, and a family case addressing remedies for default of family court orders, Dickie. Joanna is the author of numerous papers dealing with substantive equality and family law. She is also a frequent speaker at legal and academic conferences, and to community groups. She is on the Advisory Board of the MIRCI, and on the editorial board of its Journal and the Journal for GLBT Family Studies.

	Jane Satterfield Literary Editor Jane Satterfield is the author of Her Familiars (Elixir Press, 2013), and two previous poetry collections: Assignation at Vanishing Point, and Shepherdess with an Automatic, as well as Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond.

	Dr. Gina Wong is a Registered Psychologist and Associate Professor in the GCAP program at Athabasca University in Canada. Gina has a program of research focused on maternal mental health and wellness. She publishes and presents widely on motherhood from feminist and cross-cultural perspectives. She has edited Moms Gone Mad (Demeter Press, 2012) and is co-editing East Asian Mothering: Politics and Practices (Demeter Press, forthcoming).

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