Nadine Violette is a SSHRC-funded political theorist, legal writer, and educator based in Toronto, ON.

Nadine is a PhD candidate in Social and Political Thought at York University and holds a Masters of Arts in Social Justice Education from the University of Toronto (OISE).

Their interdisciplinary work examines the relationship between education, violence, and social transformation, with a particular focus on the history of communist education and re-education—from the classroom to the prison—as sites for rethinking freedom and justice. They engage with contexts including Soviet Russia and Maoist China, with a broader interest in the global circulation of revolutionary pedagogy, especially across anti-colonial and anti-imperialist liberation movements.

They are a contributor and member of the The Vermin, a critical magazine dedicated to centering the marginal and the periphery, and their recent publications appear in Workers of the World and Socialism and Democracy. They also work as a legal writer supporting Indigenous individuals involved in the Canadian criminal legal system.