Dr. Felice Yuen and alumna Brittany Butler win Best Paper at the Leisure Studies Association (UK) Conference

Congratulations to Dr. Felice Yuen, professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, and Brittany Butler, MA '21, now at Nova Scotia Health, who just won the Best Paper Award at the Leisure Studies Association (UK) conference at York St. John University.  

Their paper, titled “I’m Learning How to Love Myself”: Indigenous Programming in Women’s Prison, aims to understand the role of cultural programming on incarcerated Indigenous women’s healing and rehabilitation. It reinforces the need for culturally meaningful leisure experiences and emphasizes considerations for creating such spaces within a colonial structure (e.g., prison), whose policies and practices are used to disenfranchise and disconnect Indigenous people from one another and from their ancestral lands.