Annie Chau

Annie Chau is a PhD candidate in the Department of Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include narrative inquiry, decolonial feminisms, social reproduction, Asian Canadian studies, and critical refugee studies. She is also currently a part-time faculty lecturer in the Bachelor of Social and Community Development at Sheridan College. She has a Masters in Adult Education from St. Francis Xavier University. Annie has contributed a chapter to the 2025 Routledge publication, Human Rights and the United Nations Paradox and Promise, edited by Abigail B. Bakan and Yasmeen Abu-Laban. She has also published in Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, the Canadian Review of Sociology, and the Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education. She worked for ten years in community-based sexual violence response and prevention in Canada, participating in various national initiatives on gender (in)justice, through Women And Gender Equality Canada (formerly Status of Women Canada) and the Canadian Women’s Foundation.