Evelyn Encalada Grez

Evelyn is a community organiser and researcher who was born in Chile and raised in Canada. Her dissertation focues on migrant work across rural Ontario and Rural Mexico.  Evelyn has worked in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Honduras with the Central American Network in Solidarity with Women Maquila Workers and with the Workers Support Centre in Puebla, Mexico. Evelyn is a founding member of Justice for Migrant Farm Workers, a political collective that has fought for the rights of migrant farm workers in Canada since 2001. In the summer of 2009 she created an innovative online course-Migration and Displacement- based on her academic and transnational organizing work for the Centre for Intercultural Communication at the University of British Columbia.