Judith Harris, University of Winnipeg; Founder – Village Co-operative
Dr. Judith Harris has travelled and worked in northern Manitoba and Holman Island and with CIDA and FINIDA in Indonesia, Tanzania and Ethiopia. Judith has been active in community development in urban and rural and international contexts for 30 years. She helped to establish a number of community development projects including the Spence Skills Bank, Frontstep Research Workers’ Co-op, the Village Co-op in Winnipeg’s north end, the Langside Learning Garden, and the Little Stars Playhouse. In 2021 Judith retired from her position as Associate Professor in Urban and Inner-City Studies at the University of Winnipeg. She served as President of the Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation (CASC) from 2019- 2024. For the past 10 years Dr. Harris has taught university courses in Manitoba’s Walls to Bridges prison exchange education program at the Women’s Correctional Centre and at Stony Mountain Penitentiary.
