Averill Elisa Frankes

Averill Elisa Frankes (she/they) is an M.Phil. graduate student at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador researching epistemic justice and the importance of seeing ourselves in stories, both fictional and historical. Averill brings fifteen years of experience in aviation and corporate communications to her studies, leveraging her experience to bring marginalized and interdisciplinary perspectives to academic knowledge production, dissemination, and mobilization. She holds a B.Ed. in Adult Education from Brock University and an Advanced Diploma in Aviation Management from Georgian College. In her free time, she writes fiction, creates zines and textile art, and tries to keep up with her senior cat, Tassy, who doesn’t seem to understand that she’s supposed to be old.