Julia Christensen was born and raised in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (Denendeh), on Chief Drygeese territory. She has published extensively on northern and Indigenous housing, including Indigenous self-determination of housing, home as sovereignty, and the role of colonial housing policy in framing the contemporary northern housing crisis. She is a former Canada Research Chair in Northern Governance and Public Policy and is currently the Project Director for At Home in the North (athomeinthenorth.org), a CMHC- and SSHRC-funded Partnership that brings together researchers and Indigenous and northern community-based organizations and governments to collaboratively address northern housing needs. Julia is currently an Associate Professor in Geography and Planning at Queen's University, where she is privileged to raise her son on the beautiful homelands of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe on Dish with One Spoon Territory. She was a 2008 Trudeau Foundation Scholar.
