Olivia Schmidt holds an (Honours) BA in Sociology and Women’s & Gender Studies with a Concentration in Applied Social Research and Data Analysis from Brock University. She is starting her MA in Critical Sociology at Brock University in September 2024. Olivia’s research interests broadly include gender, social policy, migration, citizenship and surveillance, and urbicide’s implications for racialized, unhoused, and migrant communities, particularly within the framework of necropolitics.