GSA AVP Labour

Nathan is an Otipemisiwak Métis Master of Arts student in the Department of English and Film Studies, and the current Associate Vice President of Labour of the GSA. Nathan spent the five years between their BA and MA working for Canada Post and CUPW, where they were elected regional representative and chief shop steward of the Edmonton north zone. They have advocated for and represented workers across Edmonton, and that experience has shaped their role as the AVPL. They have also acted as a GTA for undergraduate students in Writing Studies, and have a passion for teaching.

Nathan's research concerns artifical intelligence and the risks of its manipulation of social relationships and institutional infrastructures such as politics, laws and justice, and everyday culture. Their other areas of research include Métis and Indigenous poetry and literature, creative writing and innovative storytelling, rhetoric and composition theory, accessibility in academic writing, labour laws and movements, queer theory, masculinity and gender, and neurodivergent communication. When not doing research or advocating for graduate students, you can probably find them buried deep in the mountains backcountry hiking, cooking very strange meals, and brewing mead out of pinecones.