Elizabeth Yeoman

My main current research project is a collaboration with Innu elder and environmental activist, Elizabeth Penashue, on a book and audio and video recordings about her life and work, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). I have also recently completed a documentary film, Honk If You Want Me Off The Road, with my colleague, Sharon Roseman (Anthropology). The film follows people trying to get around St. John's in winter with the challenges of the highest snowfall levels in Canada and very limited sidewalk snow removal. Following the making of the film and the activism it documents, the City has begun improving sidewalk snow clearing and made active transportation a goal of its strategic plan.