Anna Stewart Zyw

Anna supports the development and delivery of campus-wide education, prevention, and awareness initiatives related to sexualized violence. She also contributes to the implementation of strategic education programming by designing curriculum, facilitating training, and engaging campus partners—particularly students and student-serving units—to promote a culture of consent, safety, and shared responsibility.

About Anna

Anna Stewart (she/her) is a queer-femme of mixed Sec'wep'emc, Lil'wat and Scots settler ancestry. She grew up in the Nuxalk Territory of Bella-Coola and has lived and worked on Central Coast Salish territories, in Italy on an organic farm where her son was born and raised, and in Edinburgh Scotland, where she did a PhD in Cultural Studies. Her research looked at Urban Indigenous Art and the politics of placemaking in the settler colonial city. She has a background in gender-based violence prevention with non-profits, universities, and Indigenous research projects, and is particularly interested in transformative justice and community-based approaches to harm and healing.