Andrea Mariko Grant is the Senior Research Associate for the Samara Centre for Democracy. For the past decade, her research and teaching has focused on youth civic engagement and the relationship between art and democracy. A Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Victoria, she holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Oxford and was previously a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. 

Andrea also works as a community-engaged curator, leading public history and public art projects that explore Japanese Canadian experience and identity.