Camila Velez

Camila Vélez is a psychotherapist and PhD student in Mental Health at McGill University. Originally from Colombia, she has lived with her family for almost two decades in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, on the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. Her doctoral research explores how young people imagine, feel, and creatively express futures of relational wellbeing in times of uncertainty and disruption. She co-developed the Radically Relational Futures Fellowship, which brings diverse young people together to imagine futures of interdependent wellbeing using arts-based methods informed by Indigenous futurisms, Afrofuturism, feminist, mad and queer futures. The fellowship seeks to cultivate active hope, humility, creativity, responsibility, and solidarity. Camila’s research examines the Fellowship’s processes, outputs, and outcomes. Camila has also collaborated with EAFIT University’s Center for Urban and Environmental Studies and Fundación Oasis Urbano on a participatory