Catherine Ann Kelly (she/her) is a Mother, former caregiver, restorative justice practitioner, lived experience researcher and community builder. She holds a BA (Hons) in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Carleton University, is a certified End of Life Doula, Patient Navigator and Third Party Neutral. Catherine is the Lead Facilitator with Community Justice Connect, a restorative justice program with the Newfoundland and Labrador Human Rights Commission. She serves as Past President to the St. Leonard’s Society of Canada, Past Chair to Harbour Main’s Tourism, Culture and Heritage

Committee and is an Alumni of the Canadian Consortium of Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) Engagement of People with Lived Experience of Dementia (EPLED) Advisory Group. Catherine’s volunteer work is centred on culture shift and the belief that community requires all of us.

Catherine has woven her lived experience of disability, dementia care, mental health, rural living with her professional experience in justice (corrections, Indigenous justice, human rights) and conflict resolution to bring a unique analysis to dementia research. As a neurodiverse curious listener, Catherine’s research interests are centred in access to care

and justice, culture shift in decision making bodies, quality of life - ways of not just living but ensuring purpose and meanings, systems/policy change. Catherine is grateful to live, work and play on the ancestral unceded homelands of the Mi'kmaq and Beothuk. She loves hiking with her family, and searching beaches for the perfect soft rock.