Amy Parks (settler-Canadian) is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University and NACDI research fellow. She is a recipient of the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, which supports her research situated at the intersection of visual sports culture, identity, and belonging in a g/localized context. She examines how games can, and have operated as spaces of representation, but also engagement, exchange, and refusal for players and audience members alike. Her approach to these topics advances a critique of the capitalist and settler-colonial logics from which modern sports have developed, and an examination of the possibilities of cultural play that challenge such logics. Currently Lead Research Fellow for the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative (NACDI), Parks has also worked as research fellow for the MITACS Accelerate funded project “Toronto’s City Diplomacy: Arts, Culture and Heritage” and is an executive member of several local organizations that support heritage and cultural education in Kingston, Ontario.