Community Investigator
for the case study "Doing Disability at the Bank: Discovering the
Work and Informal Learning/Teaching Done by Disabled Bank Employees"
Ms. Catherine Frazee has been involved in the equality
rights movement for many years, most notably during her term as Chief
Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission from 1989-1992. Currently
she is the Co-Director of the Ryerson-RBC Institute for Disability Studies
Research and Education and a sessional instructor in the Disability Studies
Program. Ms. Frazee is a committed activist who has lectured and published
extensively in Canada and abroad on issues related to disability, rights,
disability culture and the disability experience. Her work has been published
in textbooks and scholarly journals as well as a variety of popular and
speciality magazines. Included among her academic assignments are special
lectures presented in 1998 at the University of Manitoba as part of the
Faculty of Law Distinguished Visitor Series and the Bertha Wilson Visiting
Professorship in Human Rights at Dalhousie University during the academic
year 2000-2001. In 2002 Ms Frazee was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters
degree from the University of New Brunswick.
