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
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.