- Catherine Frazee
Catherine Frazee is a
Canadian educator, activist, researcher, poet and writer who currently serves as a Professor of Distinction in theDisability Studies program atRyerson University as well as a Co-director ofRyerson University 's Institute for Disability Studies Research and Education. [http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/October2007/04/c8571.html] Her father was prominent Canadian bankerRowland Cardwell Frazee .Organizations
Frazee is a member of DAWN (
DisAbled Women's Network Canada )'s Equality Rights Committee [http://www.dawncanada.net/] and serves on the Board of Directors of theCanadian Abilities Foundation [http://www.abilities.ca/about_abilities.html] and theCanadian Association for Community Living [http://www.cacl.ca/] , chairing that organization's Task Force on Values and Ethics [http://www.cacl.ca/english/priorityresouces/valuesethics/index.html] . Between 1989 and 1992, Frazee acted as the Chief Commissioner of theOntario Human Rights Commission .Honours
In 2002, Frazee received an honorary degree from the
University of New Brunswick . She has also been awarded theArnold Davidson Dunton Alumni Award of Distinction in 1990, by theCarleton University Alumni Association .Media
Catherine Frazee, along with humourist David Roche, dancer, choreographer and impresario Geoff McMurchy, writer/artist Persimmon Blackbridge, and director and filmmaker
Bonnie Sherr Klein is one of five Canadian artists with diverse (dis)abilities profiled in Klein's 2006NFB film "Shameless: The ART of Disability". [http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=51620]In 1998, Frazee's lecture about the dangers of contemporary
eugenics was featured on Canada'sVision TV , commemorating the 50th anniversary of theUniversal Declaration of Human Rights . Her publications to date include numerous textbooks, academic journals, and magazine contributions, including articles in "Abilities Magazine", "ARCHtype", and "The Womanist" [http://www.banffcentre.ca/press/contributors/def/frazee_c/]
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