Mayme Lefurgey, Ph.D.
PINK Canada - Policy and Research Director
Mayme Lefurgey (she/her) is the Research Manager at CBDC Restigouche in Mi’gma’gi (Atlantic Canada) where she leads and collaborates on various national and regional qualitative and mixed-methods research projects on topics related to intimate partner violence, disability inclusion and the social/community impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mayme is a research fellow with the Department of Sociology and the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. In this role, she is currently analyzing qualitative data on IPV in rural communities from the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations (CDHPIVP) national research project.
Mayme’s work has largely focused on community-oriented and policy-driven approaches to research and methodologies that are grounded in postcolonial and intersectional feminist theoretical foundations. Recently, Mayme was a postdoctoral fellow at the MMFC and the Department of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick where her work focused on increasing the accessibility of IPV services and supports in rural New Brunswick.
Mayme holds a Ph.D. in Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies (collaborative program in Transitional Justice & Post-Conflict Reconstruction) from Western University. Her doctoral research explored trauma-informed, relational, and embodied approaches to addressing violence—including wartime violence, structural/systemic violence, family violence and gender-based violence in collaboration with Colombian non-profit peacebuilding organization, Coporaciòn Dunna.