Paula Butler is a white settler Canadian whose ancestors arrived from England and Ireland and established livelihoods in Mi’kma’ki in the 1700s. For most of her adult life she has lived in Toronto (Mississauga and Haudenosaunee territory). Some of her time in the past decades has been dedicated to understanding what this means and what obligations it places on her. Paula has had two major career tracks. One was working in the international ecumenical social justice community, addressing (for instance) global North-South economic inequities (SAPs, debt crisis, impact of WTO), racism (apartheid in South Africa), human rights and international development. During this era she was regularly hosted by “partner organizations” in Kenya, Tanzania, DRC, Malawi and Zambia. Her second and current career is as a contract/sessional university professor. Paula teaches “critical social sciences” drawing on critical race theory, critical political economy, postcolonialism, decoloniality, and some transnational feminist thought. Her doctoral research – and subsequent research and writing – analyzed the Canadian global mining industry through a critical race lens. Recently, she has delved into scholarship on “racial capitalism” and has started to incorporate this concept into her teaching. Last but certainly not least, she has raised up three human beings to adulthood, and remains the main caregiver of two cats and a very wonderful Labrador retriever.