Kris Madsen

Biography

Kris is committed to the well-being of people and the planet. This commitment drove her to join the Peace Corps, to go into medicine, and finally into academia. In working towards greater health equity, she’s seen how the dominant culture has shaped multiple systems and how it offers apparent well-being for some people (including herself), but not for others. As a result, she is on her own un/learning journey, exploring how the dominant culture lives inside of her. She orients towards care for—and accountability to—family, community, and the planet. She is practicing holding the paradoxes and complexities of collapse and is inviting others to join in the vulnerability needed to repair relationships—opening to new possibilities with humour and humility.