Sophie Lightfoot is a PhD candidate in the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa and a Registered Nurse at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO),

where she works in the Emergency Department and on the Sexual Assault Nursing Response Team. For her doctoral research, Sophie is collaborating with gender minority youth to better understand their experiences accessing emergency departments. Further, through this collaboration, she seeks to co-create knowledge useful for challenging cisnormativity and trans erasure in healthcare. Her research interests reflect her clinical practice working with sexual and gender minorities, survivors of sexual assault and youth experiencing mental and physical health emergencies. She is passionate about bilingualism (English and French) and actively promotes this value through her research, her teaching, and her clinical practice.