Merissa Daborn

Dr. Merissa Daborn is a white scholar and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba where she researches at the intersections of food, technoscience, surveillance, and whiteness.

Her current research interrogates how food spaces are made carceral through metrics and technological interventions of whiteness, police presence, citizen surveillance, and privacy violations. Her research is concerned with what it means to safely access food, the implications of policed and surveilled food spaces for individuals to maintain food security, and how Indigenous people are pre- and over criminalized in carceral food spaces. Merissa is broadly interested in how Indigenous sovereignty and relationality can interrupt carceral systems. You can read more about her ongoing research at: www.merissadaborn.com

Merissa is a member of the abolitionist prisoner solidarity group Bar None (https://barnonewpg.org). Bar None operates a prison rideshare to connect people with their loved ones who are in prison.