Brenna Jarrar
Secretary
Originally from Nova Scotia’s South Shore, Brenna relocated to Labrador in 2020. While new to Labrador, Brenna is not new to historical and archival work. Brenna completed a BA with honours and a Master of Arts in history at Dalhousie University, with a focus on lives lived under settler colonial rule. Brenna is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Toronto in the Department of History, where she works on the study of empire and diaspora. Brenna has always been interested in the study of colonial rule, particularly the most hard to access stories by those who endured occupation and often left no written account of their lives. With this background, it was the critical and careful work with oral histories, personal archives of letters/diaries, and visual sources such as photography and maps, taking place at Them Days that so immediately drew Brenna in, where she participates as the Secretary and as a member of the editorial committee. Outside of the Board, Brenna works for Nunatsiavut Government and spends her free time reading, and hiking, biking, and snowshoeing around central Labrador.
