We are pleased to welcome Mariam Abdulbaki as one of our 2025 summer students. She is currently attending the University of Ottawa, studying an Honours Bachelor’s of Arts in History. Mariam has a special interest in post-colonial Indigenous history and women’s studies. Her interest is exemplified by her research paper examining the impact of constitutional political and legal deadlock on the Oka Crisis. She plans on expanding this research in an Honours Thesis that connects the constitutional deadlock following 1982 with the wider movement of Indigenous resistance in the 1990s. Over the last two years, Mariam has volunteered and completed research at the Feminist Resource Centre at the University of Ottawa. She has been able to use a historical and/or post-colonial lens to examine current issues impacting women; these include a historical examination of the crisis regarding MMIWG2+ as well as misogyny in women’s healthcare with a focus on PCOS and Endometriosis. Mariam has considerable experience in early Canadian history, with a focus on migrant labour history in both the Capitol region and Western Canada. Alongside her knowledge of Canadian workers’ movements, she has studied the works of Marx, Lenin, Mao, and Ho Chi Minh. This understanding of international workers’ movements has enabled her to connect workers’ history in the Ottawa Valley to the larger network of global workers.