Jenna Reid (she/her) is the current Artistic Director at Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture. Jenna is a fibre artist who works with practices such as quilting and natural dyes as well as other fibre techniques as a way to engage with activist based aesthetics.

Jenna has completed a residency on Toronto Island with the Feminist Art Conference, and at thee Banff Centre for the Arts, and has exhibited her work and presented on panels in Canada, the US, the UK, and Australia. Her studio work explores inter-institutional violence informed by the histories of queer, feminist, Deaf, disability, and mad movement organizing. With a studio-based PhD in Critical Disability Studies from York University, Jenna’s teaching and research specializes in the emergent field of Mad Studies.