Name: Rajpreet Sidhu (Undergraduate Resident) Email: rajpreet.sidhu98@gmail.com
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Bio: Rajpreet (she/her) is finishing her studies in International Development Studies Co-op and Human Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Through a School of Cities Undergraduate Fellowship and she will be organizing alternative mapping workshops around food security with the Collective. She hopes to ensure the process is community informed and led, so please reach out with any inquires, ideas or thoughts! She is currently working on her thesis analyzing how disappeared family members are publicly memorialized on Instagram in the aftermath of the Maoist Civil War, after completing a 10-month placement in Kathmandu, Nepal. As a spacemaker and builder, she values critical/feminist pedagogy, placed-based projects, and believes in the power of collective action. With a team of BIPOC youth, she is starting a neighborhood level composting initiative in Kitchener to engage with the local food system in a sustainable and innovative way. She is also developing the first gender-based violence policy for the Scarborough Campus Students’ Union In her spare time, Rajpreet loves making her own paper, baking muffins, and hopes to continue to build spaces of community care.