Richelle Ready

Richelle Ready (she/her)  is a woman of both Métis and settler (Scottish/Irish/British) heritage, with matrilineal connections to the Red River Métis settlement. Richelle is a registered social worker and works in community providing support and services regarding suicide prevention and intervention, life promotion, crisis support services, and care for persons who have experienced gender-based violence. She is completing her Master of Social Work Based in Indigenous Knowledges, working towards the completion of her thesis on the topic of experiences of Indigenous women accessing care following experiences of sexual violence. Richelle values the integration of relationships, community-based work, clinical practice, and lived and living experiences into all of the work that she does. Richelle has been involved in research regarding the impacts of gender-based violence since 2012, having worked previously with RESOLVE, the Center for Human Rights Research, and the Department of Sociology regarding prosecution and criminal justice proceedings regarding gender-based violence, including sexual violence, as well as community-based initiatives regarding Indigenous ways of knowing and supporting youth in knowledge and skill development regarding healthy relationships.  Richelle recently engaged in research regarding persons experiences reporting sexual violence and the attrition within the criminal justice system following reports of sexual violence, “Examining Attrition Rates for Reported Sexual Assault Cases” and continues to support research examining the impact of the Me Too Movement on reporting and attrition of sexual violence. She is a Research Assistant on the research project “Impervious to Change? A Mixed Methods Analysis of Criminal Sexual Assault Complaint Attrition Rates” to support persons who have experienced sexual violence in making informed decisions about involvement with the criminal justice system following experiences of sexual violence. Through her work, Richelle advocates for equity in care for persons who have experienced gender-based and sexual violence and works to amplify the voices of Indigenous women, who disproportionately experience sexual violence as a direct result of ongoing colonization.