Before accepting a position at St. Thomas University (2003), Sue McKenzie-Mohr was a social worker for 15 years working in shelters, hospitals, and counselling centres. Her scholarly interests include youth experiences of the care system/homelessness, politicized framings of trauma, and women’s/girls’ experiences of sexualized violence. Sue co-edited Women Voicing Resistance (Routledge) with Michelle Lafrance, for which they won the 2015 Distinguished Publication Award (Association for Women in Psychology). Sue’s engagement in community focuses on supporting efforts by agencies whose purpose is to address violence and oppression in the lives of women and youth.
Before accepting a faculty position in the School of Social Work at St. Thomas University in 2003, Suzanne McKenzie-Mohr was in practice for fifteen years in shelters, hospitals, and counselling centres. Her scholarly interests and publications address youth experiences of homelessness and the care system, sexualized violence, and politicized framings of trauma. Sue co-edited Women Voicing Resistance: Discursive and Narrative Explorations (Routledge) with Michelle N. Lafrance, which received the Association for Women in Psychology’s 2015 Distinguished Publication Award. A founding member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Narrative, her scholarship has been published in such journals as Feminism & Psychology, Qualitative Social Work, and the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare. Her community involvement includes work with such agencies as the Fredericton Sexual Assault Centre, Partners for Youth, and the Fredericton Downtown Community Health Centre. Most recently Sue has settled in Western Canada.