Joan Kuyek

Joan Newman Kuyek is a writer, researcher and community organizer living in Ottawa. In 1965-70, she worked with the Kingston Community Project (KCP), which was instrumental in getting changes to the Landlord and Tenant Act and establishing the first Legal Clinic in Ontario. She has been an organizer all her life, living in Sudbury from 1970 to 1999 and then in Ottawa as community-focused mining activist. In Sudbury, she helped organize Women Helping Women, Wives Supporting the Strike and Better Beginnings Better Futures Project. She was also a founding National Coordinator of MiningWatch Canada. She is the author of many articles and four books that share her learnings form these experiences.