Research Outputs

Beals, A. M., Wilson, C. L., & Persaud, R. (2025). Proclaiming Our Roots: Afro-Indigenous Identity, Resistance, and the Making of a Movement. Religions (Basel, Switzerland ), 16(7), 828. doi.org/10.3390/rel16070828

O. Faruquzzaman, S. Tse, R. Cameron, K. Chee, S. Mendis-Millard, M. Kirst, and C. L. Wilson. (under review). Equitable Evaluation Scoping Review. Journal of Evaluation and Program Planning. 

Darko, N. A., Wilson, C. L., & Oliver, V. (2024). “We are mothers, sisters, and lovers too”: Examining young Black women’s experiences navigating sex and sexual health. American Journal of Community Psychology, 74(3–4), 196–209. doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12753

A.M. Beals, M. Douglin, K. Jewers-Dailley, S. Ranco, K. Reimer-Watts, and R. Sharma. (2023). The COVID-19 crisis: Using the cracks in neoliberalism for transformation towards a more just society. Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice, 14(2), 1-27. 

Hastings, C., French, M., McClelland, A., Mykhalovskiy, E., Adam, B., Bisaillon, L., Bogosavljevic, K., Gagnon, M., Greene, S., Guta, A., Hindmarch, S., Kaida, A., Kilty, J., Massaquoi, N., Namaste, V., O’Byrne, P., Orsini, M., Patterson, S., Sanders, C., … Wilson, C. (2024). Criminal Code reform of HIV non-disclosure is urgently needed: Social science perspectives on the harms of HIV criminalization in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 115(1), 8–14. doi.org/10.17269/s41997-023-00843-9

M. Khan and C. L. Wilson. (2023). We Have Some Reconciliatory Work to Do: Kitchen Table Conversations Between Black and Brown Scholars in Canadian Academe. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping Journal, 29(2), 84-97. 

Burchell, D., Coleman, T., Travers, R., Aversa, I., Schmid, E., Coulombe, S., Wilson, C., Woodford, M. R., & Davis, C. (2024). “I don’t want to have to teach every medical provider”: barriers to care among non-binary people in the Canadian healthcare system. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 26(1), 61–76.  doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2023.2185685

C. L. Wilson and L. James. (2022). Imagining Possible Futures for Black and Indigenous Relations and Wellbeing. The Feral Feminisms Journal. 10: 66 – 76 

Fante-Coleman, T., Wilson, C. L., Cameron, R., Coleman, T., & Travers, R. (2022). “Getting shut down and shut out”: Exploring ACB patient perceptions on healthcare access at the physician-patient level in Canada. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being, 17(1), 2075531. 10.1080/17482631.2022.2075531

Cox, E., Warren, T., Khan, M., Wilson, C., Cameron, R., Davis, C., Coleman, T., Steffler, J., Coulombe, S., & Woodford, M. (2022). Experiences of discrimination and its impacts on well‐being among racialised LGBTQ+ newcomers living in Waterloo region, Ontario, Canada. Health & Social Care in the Community, 30(5), e2980–e2988. doi. Org/10.1111/hsc.13743 

A.M. Beals, D. Thomas. J.S. Fernández, C. L. Wilson, and G. Palmer. (2021). Resisting the coloniality and colonialism of a westernized community psychology: Toward a critical racial justice praxis. Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice, 12(2), 1-22. 

C. L. Wilson, A. K. Singh, R. Sharma, A.M. Beals, B. Hunt, E. Furman, N. Darko, V. Liu, T. Fante-Coleman, and N. Kivell. (2021). Dialogues of Disruption: Confronting oppression in the academy. The Global Journal of Community Psychology. 12(3), 1-25.

Aversa, I., Coleman, T., Travers, R., Coulombe, S., Wilson, C., Woodford, M. R., Davis, C., Burchell, D., & Schmid, E. (2022). “I’m Always Worried”: Exploring Perceptions of Safety and Community Inclusion Among Transgender People. International Journal of Community Well-Being, 5(1), 37–54. doi.org/10.1007/s42413-021-00123-9

Thompson-Blum, D. N., Coleman, T. A., Phillips, N. E., Richardson, S., Travers, R., Coulombe, S., Wilson, C., Woodford, M., Cameron, R., & Davis, C. (2021). Experiences of Transgender Participants in Emergency Departments: Findings from the OutLook Study. Transgender Health, 6(6), 358–368. doi.org/10.1089/trgh.2020.0112 

Beals, S. M. (2020). The Student and the Elder. In:Cite Journal, 3, 10–23. doi.org/10.33137/incite.3.34715

Beals, A. M., & Wilson, C. L. (2020). Mixed-blood: Indigenous-black identity in colonial Canada. AlterNative : An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 16(1), 29–37.  doi.org/10.1177/1177180119890141 

Armstrong, E., Coleman, T., Lewis, N. M., Coulombe, S., Wilson, C. L., Woodford, M. R., Cameron, R., Davis, C., & Travers, R. (2020). Travelling for sex, attending gay-specific venues, and HIV-related sexual risk among men who have sex with men in Ontario, Canada. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 29(3), 380–391. doi.org/10.3138/cjhs.2019-0054

Ragonetti, T., Coleman, T., Travers, R., Tran, B., Coulombe, S., Wilson, C., Woodford, M. R., Davis, C., & Cameron, R. (2020). Factors associated with interest in and knowledge of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Insights from the OutLook Study. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 29(3), 366–379. doi.org/10.3138/cjhs.2019-0060

Hunt, B., Wilson, C. L., Fauzia, G., & Mazhar, F. (2020). The Muslimah Project: A Collaborative Inquiry into Discrimination and Muslim Women’s Mental Health in a Canadian Context. American Journal of Community Psychology, 66(3–4), 358–369. doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12450

Taylor, K., Coulombe, S., Coleman, T. A., Cameron, R., Davis, C., Wilson, C. L., Woodford, M. R., & Travers, R. (2022). Social support, discrimination, and Self-Esteem in LGBTQ + high school and Post-Secondary students. Journal of LGBT Youth, 19(3), 350-374. doi.org/10.1080/19361653.2020.1812465

Wilson, C. L., Flicker, S., and Restoule, J.-P. (2022). Building Black and Indigenous Alliances for HIV Prevention and Health Promotion. In N. Caple & R. Cummings (Eds.), Harriet’s Legacies (pp. 278–303). McGill-Queen’s University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780228012191-018

C. L. Wilson, N. Darko, A. Singh, and B. Hunt. (2020). Racism and Applications of Critical Race and Intersectional Theories in Community Psychology. In Riemer and Evans Community Psychology: Towards Liberation V. 2. Red Globe Press. pp. 441-456 

Wilson, C.L., Darko, N. A., Singh, A. K., and Hunt, B. (2020). Racism and applications of critical race and intersectional theories in community psychology. In M. Riemer, S.M. Reich, S.D., Evans, G. Nelson, & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Community psychology: In pursuit of liberation and well-being (3rd ed., pp. 441-456). Red Globe Press – Macmillan.

Harrigan, M., Woodford, M., Godderis, R., and Wilson, C.L. (2020) Understanding students’ intentions to intervene to prevent sexual violence: A Canadian study. In Diane Crocker, Joanne Minaker, and Amanda Nelund (Eds.), Violence Interrupted: Confronting Sexual Violence on University Campuses. McGill-Queens University Press. pp. 164-188.

Wilson, C. L., and Beals, A. M. (2019). Proclaiming our Indigenous-Black roots at a time of Truth and Reconciliation. In S. Wilson, A. V. Breen, & L. DuPré (Eds.), Research and reconciliation: Unsettling ways of knowing through Indigenous relationships (pp. 29-45). Canadian Scholars.

Beals, A. M. (2025) Reclaiming Knowledge, Resisting Erasure: Liberatory Curriculum Development from an Afro-Indigenous Worldview. Presentation at the 2025 Community Psychology Day Conference. Waterloo, CA. 

Beals, A. M. (2025) Highlighting the Access & Equity Research Interest Group. Moderator of Panel at the 2025 Community Psychology Day Conference. Waterloo, CA. 

Beals, A. M. (2025). Community-Led Visions for Community Safety. Presentation at the 6th Benjamin V. Cohen Peace Conference: Cultivating Paths to Sustainable Peace Conference. Virtual Event. 

Beals, A. M., & Wilson, C. L. (2023). The White People Pretendian Problem and the Implications for Afro-Indigenous Communities in Canada. Presentation at the 2023 SCRA 19th Biennial Conference. Atlanta, US. 

Beals, A. M., & Wilson, C. L. (2023) The Proclaiming Our Roots Project – Film Screening. Presentation at the 2023 NAISA Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference. Toronto, CA. 

Beals, A. M. (2021). Publish or perish? A colonial mindset. Presentation at the 2021 SCRA 18th Biennial Conference. SCRA Virtual Event. 

Beals, A. M., Kivell, N., Sharma, R., & Singh, A. K. (2021). Dialogues of disruption: Confronting oppression in the academy. Roundtable presentation at the 2021 SCRA 18th Biennial Conference. SCRA Virtual Event. 

Beals, A. M. (2021). The Proclaiming Our Roots Project – film screening. Presented at the Cultivating Black and Indigenous Futures in Education Conference. Arizona State University. Virtual Event. 

Beals, A. M., Agung-Igusti, R., Fernández, J. S., Miranda, D., & Rauk, L. (2021). Disrupting and unsettling white supremacist regimes of colonial power: A transnational dialogue reflection on Indigenous, Black and racial justice praxes. Roundtable presentation at the 2021 SCRA 18th Biennial Conference. SCRA Virtual Event. 

Beals, A. M., Kivell, N., Sharma, R., & Singh, A. K. (2021). Dialogues of disruption: Confronting oppression in the academy. Roundtable presentation at the 2021 SCRA 18th Biennial Conference. SCRA Virtual Event.

C. L. Wilson, E. Bennett, and S. Nixon. (2025). Toward A Culture of Care and Accountability at the County of Dufferin: Final Report. County of Dufferin.  

I. Villamonte, I. C. L. Wilson, I. Abdillahi, and B. Hunt (2025). What do we want?: The Community Service Needs Of Muslim Women. The Muslimah Project Community Report. 

A. M. Beals, and C. L. Wilson. (2024). Understanding Afro-Indigenous Experiences of Gendered Violence and Healing Pathways. Learning Network Backgrounder. London, Ontario. Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children 

Wilson, C. L., & Beals, A. M. (2024). Making space for Afro-Indigenous community (Special issue: The Black radicalism issue). Briarpatch. 

Beals, A. M.  - Briarpatch Magazine. (May 2023 – February 2024). Co-Editor: Special Issue. 

Beals, A. M. (2024, 2023, May). Positionality and reflexivity in program evaluation. LSIRM (Laurier Summer Institute for Research Methods). 

CCRLA. (2023). Equitable Approaches to Evaluation: Learnings about concepts, application & capacity from the Literature and Virtual Workshops. Waterloo, ON: Centre for Community Research, Learning and Action (CCRLA), Wilfrid Laurier University 

Beals, A. M. (2021). Land Acknowledgement for the SCRA 18th Biennial Conference. The Community Psychologist, 54(4), 14-18. 

Beals, A. M. (2021). Decolonization: An alphabet. Tatamagouche Centre. 

Beals, A. M. (2021, 2020, 2019, November). The whiteness of green: Indigenous land and water protectors in the “environmental movement.” Guest lecture presented at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, CA. 

N. Benjamin.* P. Grant.* A. Choudhary,* J. Lee, * K. Harvey, * L. Burrows, L-M. Lindo, V. Oliver, C. Wilson. (2021). Being Raced Summary Report. Laurier Students’ Public Interest Research Group.  

Wilson, C. L. & Beals, A. M. (2020). From Community-Based Research to a Movement - The Proclaiming Our Roots Project Case Study. The Community Psychologist.

Hunt, B., Wilson, C. L., Mazar, F., Fauzia, G., & Bhutto, U. (2020). The Researcher is not the Expert: Negotiating Roles and Responsibilities in The Muslimah Project. The Community Psychologist.

Wilson, C. L., & Beals, A. M. (2020). From community-based research to a movement: The Proclaiming Our Roots Project case study. The Community Psychologist, (53)1, 9-12.

Invited Talks | Ann Marie Beals

WLU Making Space for All. (March 2025). Centering Social and Cultural Representations in EDII Conversations.

Panelist: Representations of Anti-Black Racism as A Colonial Construct.

Black History Month Presentation: Algoma University. (February 2025). Keynote: Black and Indigenous Solidarity in a Settler Colonial Nation State.

Teacher Diversity WRDSB Student Conference. (November 2024). Participant: Human Library.

Disability Inclusion in the Green Economy. (October 2023). Interviewee.

Black Brilliance Film Festival: Gault Collegiate. (May 2023). Panelist: Being Black in High School.

Waterloo Regional District School Board. (June 2023). Guest: WRDSB Pride.

County of Dufferin. (February 2023). Presenter: BHM African, Caribbean, Black, Afro-Indigenous Histories and Futures in Canada.

Mass Culture TRAIN Webinar Series. (January 2023). Podcast Content Provider.

Landscapes of Holistic Sustainability and Wellbeing. (October 2022). Presenter: Toward systemic and collective action.

Ambe: Being Indigenous. (November 2021). Panelist: Being Indigenous and Representation.

Indigenous Curatorial Collective (ICCA). (November 2021). Presenter: Closing Remarks for the Annual Gathering, Solidarity Beyond Space.

Documentary: BLK: An Origin Story. (July 2021). Actor for the Series on the History Channel.

Indigenous Spring Storytelling Series – City of Kitchener. (March 2021). Storytelling: Stories of Two- Spirit Identities.

Invited Talks | Ciann L. Wilson

C. L. Wilson, R. Jackson, and F. Ibanez-Carrasco. April 28th, 2024. (Panelist). Promoting comprehensive sexual health and wellbeing across the life course. Canadian Association for HIV/AIDS Research Annual Conference, 2024. London, ON.

C. L. Wilson, N. Lachowsky, R. Souleymanov. April 4th, 2024. (Panelist). How to involve people with lived experience (patients, communities) in your research. CIHR - III New Investigator Forum. King City, ON.

C.L. Wilson. June 24th, 2023. (Keynote). Black and Alternative Psychologies: Unpacking racism and colonialism in science. Canadian Psychological Association Conference, 2023. Toronto, ON.

C. L. Wilson, and I. Abdillahi. Black Health. Sepsis Canada. Toronto, ON.

C.L. Wilson. May 27th, 2023. Anti-Oppressive Community-Based Research Practice. Cultivating Communities in Research Gathering - Sepsis Canada. Halifax, NS.

C. L. Wilson. March 20th, 2023. The Failed EDI Project. Wilfrid Laurier University's Faculty Association. Waterloo, ON.

C. L. Wilson and S. Nixon. March 9th, 2023. Developing Insight and Action on EDI Through Anti-Oppressive Practice. Dufferin County. Orangeville, ON.

C. Wilson & C. Traverse. (2025). Art in action: Youth experiences of homelessness through a harm reduction lens [Conference session], Enabling health, wellbeing, and inclusion for over-represented populations, Prevention of Youth Homelessness International Conference. Feb. 25 – 27, 2025. Toronto, ON, Canada.

C. Wilson. (2024). Mapping Afro-Indigenous Geographies From Canada to the World. Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference. August 28th – 30th, 2024. London, UK.

C. L. Wilson and A. M. Beals. (2023). The White People Pretendian Problem and the Implications for Afro-Indigenous Communities in Canada. The Society for Community Research Learning and Action Biennial Conference, 2023. Atlanta, Georgia.

A.M. Beals, K. Webber, N. Ochrym, J. Henderson, C. L. Wilson. (2023). Proclaiming Our Roots – A Film Screening. Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference. May 10th, 2023. Toronto, ON.

M. Weiler, A. Shaw, C. Wilson, B. Kawula, A. Kwak & N. Waite. (2023). Reflecting on One Year of a Laurier Library PDF Pitstop: A Community Asks About a National Remediation Strategy. Presentation to Scholars Portal Day. Conference of the Ontario Library University Council.

C. L. Wilson and D. Thomas. (2023).  The Imperial Algorithms Special Issue Townhall. The Society for Community Research Learning and Action Biennial Conference, 2023. Atlanta, Georgia.

C. L. Wilson. (2023). The Ethics of Care in a Pandemic: Weaving Together Anti-Racist Practice and Disability Justice in our Community-Engaged Work. Canadian Sociological Association Conference – Congress, 2023. May 31, 2023. Toronto, ON.

C. L. Wilson. (2023). Discussion on Afro-Indigenous Belonging. The Black Canadian Studies Association Conference – Congress, 2023. May 30, 2023. Toronto, ON.

C. Wilson. (2020).  The Service Access Needs of Racialized and Indigenous Communities. Pathways to Prosperity Conference. November 24th, 2020. London, ON.