Seeley Foster

Now working for the Government of Alberta as a Senior Policy Advisor, Seeley Foster (they/them) began their journey with restorative justice as a youth mentor and was then hired as the Program Coordinator at the Youth Restorative Action Project in 2013. After four and a half years, they returned to school to complete their Master of Arts in Criminal Justice at the University of Alberta. Their qualitative research gathering young adult perspectives on gangs and their members led to a collaborative paper with Dr. Jana Grekul published this year in the Canadian Review of Sociology entitled “This might be cliché, but it was a sense of family". In addition to the criminal justice system, Seeley has witnessed the power of relational practice in child and family services working within Collaborative Service Delivery and alongside Indigenous communities establishing their own child and family focused laws and programming. Seeley is passionate about intersectional advocacy, encouraging creative approaches to complex problems, and implementing transition models to sustain impactful change within large systems.