**About the Editor**

**Cecilia M. Benoit** PhD, of Mi'kmaq and French ancestry, is currently a Scientist at the Canadian Institute for Substance Research and Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada. Across her three-decade career, she has been instrumental in making known the Indigenous knowledge held by midwives and birthing women in pre-settler and settler communities, and worked diligently in changing medical practices so that Indigenous and non-Indigenous midwives can legally work and their services reimbursed by the public purse. Her other research has shed light on the forces that create social inequities for a variety of marginalized groups, all of who are overrepresented by Indigenous peoples, including: women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, street-involved youth in transition to adulthood, pregnant women and their families dealing with poverty, substance use, and other challenges, and people who sell sexual services. Her articles and books appear in health and social science journals and academic presses.
