Alanna Veitch is a PhD student in the Department of Gender Studies at Queen’s University. She holds a Master of Health Science Degree in Community, Public and Population Health from Ontario Tech University, and a Bachelor of Allied Health Science Honours Degree from Ontario Tech University. She also holds a Diploma in Occupational Therapist Assisting/Physiotherapist Assisting from Durham College, and has been working as a community-based rehabilitation assistant since 2016. Veitch's master's thesis involved a qualitative inquiry into the employment and health experiences of racialized women working in the services sector during the COVID-19 economic shutdown, and shed light on the intersectional complexities of gender, race, and class in shaping women's health during the economic crisis. Her doctoral research focuses on Canadian women’s disability experiences during COVID using arts-based research and activism. Veitch's research interests are in feminist theory, critical disability studies, feminist political economy, women's health and employment, qualitative and arts-informed research. She is an emerging scholar and poet/artist whose work centers disability justice, women's health, female embodiment, temporality, crisis, hope, and artistic praxis.