Alice Sheppard

Alice is an artist and academic whose work in disability, dance, race, and aesthetics is at the forefront of the disability arts landscape. She is a dynamic and engaging speaker, known for big thinking and her ability to cut to the point. Quickly. At home in and out of the academy, Alice has recently keynoted conferences such conferences as NATEAC and the Canadian Congress of the Humanities. Her university speaking practice ranges through seminars, facilitated conversations to named lectures.

Alice draws on her life experience and her artistic practice to share provocative, well-researched, deeply-held perspectives that challenge audiences to reimagine their worlds.