Sunshine and smiles greeted the Action Canada Fellows as they landed on the Magdalen Islands in June 2022. Fellow Veronica Fynn Bruey ’22 speaks to her experience as the Fellows learned about land use planning, housing plans and the circular economy. Fellows also joined locals at a big bonfire for la Saint-Jean-Baptiste as they met each other for the first time.
Action Canada Vlog 2022/23 – A visit to the Magdalen Islands
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Released:2 August 2022
Featured Fellow
Veronica Fynn Bruey, PhD
2022/23
Veronica Fynn Bruey is a multi-award winner and a passionate academic-advocate. Holding six academic degrees from four continents, she has researched, taught, consulted, and presented at conferences in over 30 countries.
She’s authored five books, several book chapters, and journal articles. She is the founder/editor-in-chief of the Journal of Internal Displacement; the co-lead of Law and Society’s Collaborative Research Network (CRN-11): “Displaced Peoples”; the lead of Law and Society Association’s International Research Collaborative (IRC-10): “Disrupting Patriarchy and Masculinity in Africa”; the founder the Voice of West African Refugees in Ghana at the Buduburam Refugee Settlement in Ghana. She is also the Australian National University International Alumna of the Year, 2021, the president of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, and a Co-Chair, Africa Interest Group, American Society of International Law.
Currently, she is the Director of Flowers School of Global Health Sciences, and an assistant professor in Legal Studies at Athabasca University. Veronica is a born and bred Indigenous Liberian war survivor.