DR. Karen-Marie Elah Perry is an applied medical anthropologist with a focus on social justice and the ways inequalities shape access to health care. Karen-Marie has researched, lectured on and written on a variety of topics over the past 20 years, including through the CCPA- and Simon Fraser University-led Economic Security Project (which ran from 2004 to 2009) and resulted in enhanced supports for individuals receiving disability benefits in BC.