Natalie Kallio (she/her) joined the Canadian Centre for the Study of Co-operatives at the University of Saskatchewan as Professional Research Associate in summer 2022, after managing community-engaged collaborative research projects based out the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Unit (SPHERU) for three years. Natalie is an advocate for the kind of community-based engagement that is at the heart of the co-operative movement and current projects focus on co-operative primary health care, co-op education, building a co-op business case repository, and sustainable communities. For more than a decade, she helmed harm reduction programs on the front lines of the HIV/AIDS and overdose epidemics, genuinely and meaningfully engaging with, for, and on behalf of youth in care, people who use drugs, do sex work, and are/were previously incarcerated. Natalie has worked on dozens of advocacy and research teams and projects, locally and internationally, representing both the communities she served and the University. She has a BA (Hon) in English (USask), MA in media studies (Concordia U), and a Bachelor of Education (OISE-UT). Natalie volunteers for the EGADZ Downtown Youth Centre, mentoring for youth-by youth committees, and is a current ACE Board Director.