Amrita Kumar-Ratta is a researcher, storyteller, curator, educator and founder of Shades of Brown Girl, a global creative storytelling and community healing initiative. She works at the intersection of poetic and performance arts, academia, and transformative justice activism. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Human Geography at the University of Toronto where she looks at the sexual & reproductive lives, experiences, and community organizing work of Punjabi women in/across Canada using arts-based and community-engaged storytelling techniques. With her doctoral work, Amrita seeks to contribute to knowledge production about Punjabi femininity, sexuality, and reproductive justice in Canada, and to decolonial and co-creative research processes and practices within and beyond the academy.