Patti Lenard

Patti Tamara Lenard is Professor of Ethics in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa.  She is the author of Democracy and Exclusion (OUP 2023); Trust, Democracy and Multicultural Challenges (Penn State, 2012); How should democracies fight terrorism? (Polity Press, 2020), Debating Multiculturalism (with Peter Balint, OUP, 2022); and Ordinary Citizens, Extraordinary Actions, a case-study of St. Joseph’s Parish’s refugee outreach committee (with With Stéfanie Morris, Karina Juma, and Meredith Teretta, UOP, 2022).

In Ottawa, she runs a community organization called Rainbow Haven, which sponsors, settles and advocates for LGBTQI+ refugees. Her research focuses on the moral questions raised by migration across borders, as well as multiculturalism, trust and social cohesion in diverse societies, and more generally democratic theory.