Community Bridge Lab Members/Fellows

Since Summer 2022, the Community Bridge Lab has supported a number of students with community-engaged research projects, including lab space to work in, mentoring talks and events,
 
Fellow designations, and in some cases funding. As appropriate, student projects can be connected with Independent or Applied Studies, Co-op jobs, Chinook research awards, Honours Theses, volunteer work, tutoring, Agility projects, etc.

 

WINTER 2025 CBL FELLOWS: Name and Project Title

Wallie Desruisseaux: Fantasy, Space and Place: Urban Planning in Imaginary Worlds.
Megan Dobbie: Beyond Opposition: Examining How Youth Progressive Social Movements are Sustained in Alberta
Rebeca Spencer: The Political Ecology of a River Under Threat. CBL Lab Manager.
Jaxson Overacker: The Anthropology of Recreation and Camping.
Star Hungry Wolf Cardinal: Beekseeksseenaiks ki Namskeeks (“Snakes and Lizards” from a Blackfoot Perspective).
Madison Abar: Wildfires Burning: Human-Place Relationality, Knowledge, and Oral Histories in Waterton Lakes National Park.
Yumeka Ogita: Influences of Globalized Discourse on Japanese Religions and Perceptions of Culture
Rebeca Spencer, CBL Lab Manager.

FALL 2024 CBL FELLOWS: Name and Project Title

Carter Utke: Research Assistant – Wildfires Burning: Human-Place Relationality, Knowledge, and Oral Histories in Waterton Lakes National Park.
Jade Oldfield: Examining the Impact of an Educational Neuroscience Professional Development Series on Teacher Efficacy.
Madison Abar: Wildfires Burning: Human-Place Relationality, Knowledge, and Oral Histories in Waterton Lakes National Park.
Rebeca Spencer: The Political Ecology of a River Under Threat. CBL Lab Manager.
Star Hungry Wolf Cardinal: Beekseeksseenaiks ki Namskeeks (“Snakes and Lizards” from a Blackfoot Perspective).
Wallie Desruisseaux: The Efficacy of Anti-Homeless Policy Planning: A Case Study on Fresh Water and Bench Seating in Downtown Lethbridge.
Rebeca Spencer, CBL Lab Manager.

SUMMER 2024 CBL FELLOWS: Name and Project Title
Joe Gehring: Finding Historical Progressive Voices in Southern Alberta Publications.
Madison Abar: Wildfires Burning: Human-Place Relationality, Knowledge, and Oral Histories in Waterton Lakes 
National Park.
Rebeca Spencer: The Political Ecology of a River Under Threat. CBL Student Lab Manager.
Star Hungry Wolf Cardinal: Beekseeksseenaiks ki Namskeeks (“Snakes and Lizards” from a Blackfoot Perspective).
Taylor Manns: Disrupting the Settler City: Engaging with Indigenous Imaginaries toward Anti-colonial Urban Design.
Mbuli Shei Clodine, CBL Lab Manager.
 
SPRING 2024 CBL FELLOWS: Name and Project Title
Bryanne Wandler: Understanding Student Food Insecurity at the University of Lethbridge.
Jacqueline Eshun: Politics of Location: Critical Geographies of the Black Community in Lethbridge.
Jason Ranaghan: Making Space: Unearthing the History of Queer Campus Culture at the University of Lethbridge.
Jessica Mustard: Quilts and Quilting: Southern Alberta Women's Oral History.
Kurtsie Iron Shirt: Decolonizing and Indigenous Healing.
Lawrenz Decano: The View from the Driver's Seat: Urban Stories of Migrant Families, Households, and App-Based Delivery
Couriers Negotiating Precarity in Lethbridge, Alberta.
Rebeca Spencer: (BA’23): Struggle for Hope in Northern Canadian Environmentalists.
Sharra Fullersmith :(BA '21): The Middle Class and Food Insecurity in North America.
Mbuli Shei Clodine, CBL Lab Manager.
 
FALL 2023 CBL FELLOWS:
Bryanne Wandler
Emelia Sandau
Jacqueline Eshun
Jason Ranaghan
Jayne Asekhauno
Jessica Mustard
Lawrenz Decano
Lily Overacker
Rebeca Spencer
Sharra Fullersmith
Taylor Manns
Zandria Bates
Mbuli Shei Clodine, CBL Lab Manager
 
SUMMER 2023 CBL FELLOWS:
Amy Cran
Emelia Sandau
Jacqueline Eshun
Janelle Waugh
Jayne Asekhauno
Lily Overacker
Sharra Fullersmith
Taylor Manns
 
SPRING 2023 CBL FELLOWS:
Aidan Vanden Dunge
Alyssa White
Amy Cran
Erica Gonzalez, CBL Lab Manager
Kianna Turner
Rebeca Spencer
 
FALL 2022 CBL FELLOWS:
Alyssa White
Amy Cran
Erica Gonzalez, CBL Lab Manager
Kianna Turner
Rebeca Spencer
 
SUMMER 2022 CBL FELLOWS:
Alyssa White
Amy Cran
Cassidy Ascione
Lily Overacker
Joni Smith
Rebeca Spencer
 
SPRING 2022 CBL FELLOWS:
Alyssa White
Amy Cran
Cassidy Ascione
Julisha Roache
Lily Overacker
Makita Mikuliak,Community Bridge Lab Manager
Moya Johnson
Rebeca Spencer

Testimonial: Participating in the community bridge lab has been so meaningful as an undergraduate researcher. The community bridge lab provides a special space to build connections and learn from graduate students and multi-disciplinary peers. As well, it has enriched my research experience as I have built upon my qualitative research skills and explored my research from a new perspective through conversations amongst the fellows.

Madison Abar (she/her); December 2024