Joanne Roulston is a social worker, mediator, lawyer and former government executive with extensive experience in social and public health administration, policy and clinical practice, who teaches social work at Carleton University, and practices family law in Ottawa, Canada. Joanne is the former Director of the Government of Canada’s National Council of Welfare, and provided expert testimony on poverty to the Parliament of Canada and the OECD on poverty and family policies. A nationally recognized expert in poverty and income security, child development, family services, accessibility for people with disabilities, and public health, and a survivor of coercive control herself, Joanne has keen insights into how abuse and coercion interacts within larger societal systems. She also trains on coercive control in various settings, including to lawyers, judges, policymakers, mediators, social workers.
