Joanne Louis is a Nurse Practitioner whose works with populations who been systemically and structurally oppressed. Her work at a community health centre involves the care of those who face complex mental health and addictions, refugee and newcomer populations and those who underhoused and unhoused. She has worked with Indigenous communities in Canada and she has practiced in Bangladesh, Honduras, Nigeria and Guatemala. She teaches in the undergraduate and graduate program. She strives to make the link between the clinical and academic aspects of health care delivery and determinants of health.