Jessica Ticar
Dr. Jessica Ticar, Assistant Professor, Social Justice & Community Studies
Dr. Jessica Ticar, PhD (She/Her) is a socially-engaged researcher and racialized settler. She has extensive experience in community-based mental health and other social service agencies, working with children, youth, adults, and families. Her scholarly-activist work involves knowledge mobilization projects with racialized communities, specifically with transnational Filipina/o/x im/migrant workers and their families, through feminist and intersectional approaches. For a sense of Dr. Ticar’s recent work see filipinacareworkers.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (2018), Critical Policy, Equity, and Leadership Studies in Educational Studies, Faculty of Education, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON
Dissertation: Investigating the School Experiences of Transnational Filipina/o/xYouth in Toronto Urban Schools: A Critical Ethnographic Study of the Impact of Canada’s Live-in/Caregiver Program
M.Ed. (2009), Counselling Psychology, Faculty of Education, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON
Thesis: Multiple Experiences of Filipino young adults: Identity, Community, and Social Justice
B.A. (Honours, 2006) Anthropology, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, ON
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2021 Postdoctoral Visitor & Associate, Care Work and Care Immigration in Canada, York Centre for Asian Research, York University, Toronto, ON
2020 Co-Investigator, “Filipina Care workers and COVID-19”, York Centre for Asian Research, York University
PUBLICATIONS
Ticar, J.E. (Under Contract). Transnational Filipina/o/x Youth, Intersectional Identities, and School-Community Partnerships: Mobilizing the Gendered Vulnerabilities of Migration in Canada. New York, NY: Routledge.
Ticar, J.E. & Edwards, F. (2022). Intersectional analyses of Black and Filipino youth mental health: Implications for holistic community-based interventions. Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice, 10(1), 52-68.
Ticar, J.E. (2018). Embodied transnational lives among Filipina/o/x youth in urban educational spaces, Gender, Place & Culture, 25(4), 612-616.