CLAUDIA MITCHELL, PhD, FRSC is a Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Education, McGill University where she is the Director of the Institute for Human Development and Well-being. Her research focuses on arts based approaches to working with young people and communities in relation to addressing critical social issues such as gender equality and gender based violence. She is currently carrying out this work with Indigenous girls and young women in a number of fieldsites in Canada and South Africa where the aim is to support girl-led/youth-led ‘from the ground up’ policy and community dialogue to bring about social change. She also works with research teams in a wide range of country contexts to address gender based violence, including Sweden, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Mozambique, and India. She is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning journal Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. She has written extensively in the area of participatory visual methodologies and arts-based inquiry.