Krys Maki
Assistant Professor | Faculty staff
Profile
Krys Maki is an Assistant Professor at the 脡lisabeth-Bruy猫re School of Social Innovation. Their areas of research include feminist movements, collective organizing around gender-based violence, poverty and social inequality, and critical surveillance studies. Outside of academia, Krys worked as the Director of Research and Policy at Women鈥檚 Shelters Canada, a national non-profit network of violence against women shelters (2017-2022). Their scholar activism is deeply informed by their work as a long-time organizer and activist with labour, anti-poverty, and feminist movements.
Their current research focuses on collective care and collective action in the GBV movement and sector and how anti-violence workers and leaders are transforming their workplaces, the sector, and the movement.
Recent community-based research projects:
Ending Sexual Violence Association of Canada. (2026). Stronger Workers, Stronger Survivors: A Strategy to Strengthen the Gender-Based Violence Sector in Canada. Available online:
Imagine Canada. (2026). The hidden cost of funding: how federal policies and practices impact nonprofits and their communities. Available online:
PhD Sociology, Queen鈥檚 University
MA Sociology, Queen鈥檚 University
BA Honours Sociology and Gender Studies, Trent University
- Labour and political economy
- Gender-based violence and care work
- Social policy
- Feminist and critical theory
- Non-profit organizations
- Community-based research
Books
Chateauvert, Julie, Philippe Dufort, Jonathan Durand Folco, Christopher Gunter, Krys Maki, Anahi Morales Hudon, Philippe N茅m茅h-Nombr茅, Julie Paquette, Jamel Stambouli, Simon Tremblay-Pepin, Amanda Wilson. (2025). Social Innovation for Real-World Transformation: Roadmaps for Changing the World, Bristol: Bristol University Press and Policy Press.
Maki, K. (2021). Ineligible: Single Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
Maki. K. (forthcoming). Gender-based Violence Workers Pushing Back Against Neoliberalism: Building Collective Care for Collective Power. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Klostermann, J., Bunting, S., Maki, K and Anna Przednowek, P. (2025). 鈥淐are containers: The multi-layered politics of boundless work in Canada鈥檚 victim services sector.鈥 Journal of Political Economy.
Maki, K. (2025). 鈥淭owards a Reciprocal Solidarity: Violence Against Women Shelters, Labour, and Unions.鈥 Journal of Community Practice.
Maki, K. (2023). 鈥淏reaking the Cycle of Abuse and Closing the Housing Gap: A Mixed Methods Community-Based Study on Second Stage Shelters.鈥 Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research. 14(2), 1鈥23.
Yakubovich, A. and Maki, K. (2021). 鈥淧reventing gender-based homelessness in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: the need to account for violence against women.鈥 Violence Against Women.
Maki, K. (2011). 鈥淣eoliberal Deviants and Surveillance: Welfare Recipients Under the Watchful Eye of Ontario Works.鈥 Journal of Surveillance and Society, 9(1): 47-63.
Chapters in Peer Reviewed Books
Maki, K, and Krull, C. (forthcoming). 鈥淚nvesting in Families and Children: Family Policies in Canada.鈥 Canadian Families Today: New Perspectives (sixth edition) edited by Patrizia Albanese, Oxford University Press.
Maki, K. (2025). 鈥淐entering Intersectionality and Equity.鈥 Social Innovation for Real-World Transformation: Roadmaps for Changing the World. Edited by 脡lisabeth-Bruy猫re School of Social Innovation. Bristol: Bristol University Press and Policy Press.
Krull, C, and Maki, K. (2022). 鈥淚nvesting in Families and Children: Family Policies in Canada.鈥 Canadian Families Today: New Perspectives (fifth edition), edited by Patrizia Albanese, Oxford University Press.
Maki, K. (2020). 鈥淎utomating Social Inequality.鈥 Infrastructures of Citizenship: Digital Life in the Global City edited by Deborah Cowen, Alexis Mitchell, Brett Story and Emily Paradis, UBC Press.
Research and Technical Reports
Maki, K, and Fernandes, S. (2026). 鈥淯nderstanding the Gender-Based Violence Workforce.鈥 Part A in Stronger Workers Stronger Survivors: A Strategy to Strengthen the Gender-Based Violence Workforce in Canada. Ottawa, ON: Ending Sexual Violence Association of Canada.
Osman, M., Maki, K., and Jensen, E. (2026). 鈥淭he hidden cost of funding: how federal policies and practices impact nonprofits and their communities.鈥 Imagine Canada.
Hoogendam, R. and K. Maki. (2024). 鈥淔eminist Brain Drain: Labour Issues and Worker Wellness in the VAW Shelter Sector.鈥 Ottawa, ON: Women鈥檚 Shelters Canada.
Hoogendam, R. and K. Maki. (2022). 鈥淪helter Voices Special Issue: Labour Issues and the Impact they have on VAW Shelter Staff.鈥 Ottawa, ON: Women鈥檚 Shelters Canada.
Hoogendam, R. and K. Maki. (2022). 鈥淓nvironmental Scan: Pan-Canadian Child Welfare Policies and Practices.鈥 Ottawa, ON: Women鈥檚 Shelters Canada.
Roebuck, B., Ferns, A., Scott, H., Maki, K., Tapley, J., Tague, C., McGlinchey, D., Vedard, T., Boileau, A., Thompson, K., Ahmad, and A., Rodriguex. (2022). 鈥淐OVID-19, Victim Services, and Well-being.鈥 Department of Justice, Canada.
Dale, A., Maki, K, and R. Nitia. (2021). 鈥淓xpert Engagement to Address and Prevent Gender-Based Violence Final Report. A Report to Guide the Implementation of a National Action Plan on Violence Against Women and Gender-Based Violence.鈥 Ottawa ON: Women鈥檚 Shelters Canada.
Canadian Women鈥檚 Foundation, Women鈥檚 Shelters Canada, Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, Anita Olsen Harper (NACAFV), and Jihan Abbas (DAWN Canada). (2020). 鈥淩esetting Normal: Systemic Gender-Based Violence and the Pandemic.鈥 Ottawa, ON: Canadian Women鈥檚 Foundation.
Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic. (2020). United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women. Call for submissions: COVID-19 and the increase of domestic violence against women.
Maki, K. (2020). 鈥淪helter Voices Special Issue: The Impact of COVID-19 on VAW Shelters and Transition Houses.鈥 Ottawa, ON: Women鈥檚 Shelters Canada.
Maki, K. (2020). 鈥淏reaking the Cycle of Abuse and Closing the Housing Gap: Second Stage Shelters in Canada.鈥 Ottawa, ON: Women鈥檚 Shelters Canada.
Maki, K. (2019). 鈥淭ransitioning to a Life Free from Violence: Developing a National Profile of Second Stage Shelters.鈥 Ottawa, ON: Women鈥檚 Shelters Canada.
Maki, K. (2019). 鈥淢ore than a Bed: Developing a National Profile of VAW Shelters and Transition Houses.鈥 Ottawa, ON: Women鈥檚 Shelters Canada.
Maki, K. (2018). 鈥淢apping VAW Shelters and Transition Houses: Initial Findings of a National Survey.鈥 Ottawa, ON: Women鈥檚 Shelters Canada.
Maki, K. (2017). 鈥淗ousing, Homelessness, and Violence Against Women: A Discussion Paper.鈥 Ottawa, ON: Women鈥檚 Shelters Canada.
Other publications
Maki, K. (2025). 鈥淏uilding Collective Care and Collective Power: Lessons Learned from Anti-violence Workers.鈥 The Philanthropist Journal.
Maki, K. (2022). 鈥淲orkers Supporting Survivors of Gender-Based Violence are Demanding Change.鈥 The Conversation.