Congratulations to Recent MA graduate, Sophie Mckenzie who received the John Bodley Student Travel Award at the Society for Applied Anthropology’s 84th Annual Meeting in Santa Fe.
The John Bodley Student Travel Award was initiated by former students and honors an international scholar whose career focused on the impact of development on indigenous peoples. One travel award of $750 is presented each year to a student presenting a paper/poster at the SfAA Annual Meeting.
Sophie will present her poster, The Peer Comic Book Project: Illustrating Peer Workers’ Experiences Working Throughout the Overdose Crisis in Suburban Vancouver on Thursday, March 28 at the SfAA Annual Meeting.
Sophie McKenzie is a visual anthropologist currently working as a Research Coordinator on the Youth Health Team at the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use which is located on the unceded ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations (colonially known as Vancouver). She recently completed her Masters in anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Previously, she worked at the BC Centre for Disease Control on The Peer2Peer Project during which she developed an interest in working with peer workers, or people with lived and living experience with substance use who use that experience in their professional work. She is also a professional dancer, actor, singer-songwriter, and illustrator.
