Leah Connor

Hiya! I’m Leah! I am in my fourth year in the Social Practice and Transformational Change program at UofG. I am a lone parent of two lovely people (pictured), as the matriarch of a gender-queer, poor, multiethnic-racial family much of my motivation in knowledge creation and exploration is rooted in my lofty (sometimes misguided) attempts to make this world a little bit softer. I enter into academia as a subversive intellectual; “under false pretenses, with bad documents, out of love.” (Moten & Harney, 2013 p.26).

I have many side hustles in order to support my family – including my position at the Live Work Well Research Centre as a Research Cluster Liaison. I am a member of my local paper’s Community Editorial Board, in this role I share my perspectives and musings related to what is happening in the Waterloo Region. I am also a co-facilitator for the 2024-2025 SOPR Community of Practice.

I live in the so-called City of Kitchener, on the Haldimand Tract, in a community owned building of which I am a proud tenant and member of the Board of Directors. In my spare time I take my dog on walks, play board games with my kids, and spend time with the wonderful friends who I have the honour of knowing and loving.

Harney, S. & Moton, F. (2013). The Undercommons: Fugitive planning and Black study. Minor Compositions, https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/undercommons-web.pdf