Service

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Community

Dr. Ruglis serves on the Boards of Directors of Chalet Kent (www.chaletkent.ca), which also operates No Bad Sound Studio (www.nbsstudio.ca), and of Institut Uptown (www.institutuptown.ca), where she is also a Co-Founder. Chalet Kent (@chaletkent), Institut Uptown (@institut_upt) and NBS Studios (@nbs.studio) are leaders in youth development, afterschool education and health promotion in Montréal, and were partners in Sampling Youth Development (a CBPR project, 2016-2018, Co-PIs: Jessica Ruglis & Naomi Nichols).

Dr. Ruglis has previously served on the International Advisory Board of the Collaborative Indigenous Research Archive (2019–2021, PI: Dr. Eve Tuck), and as the McGill University Social Equity and Diversity Education Office (SEDE) faculty mentor and trainer for the Social Equity Undergraduate Research Award (SEURA) program (2017 & 2018).

Dr. Ruglis worked with an interdisciplinary and interfaculty team (Faculties of Medicine & Education) to develop a new certificate program in health professions education (2016–2019). She has also served on McGill University’s Community of Practice (COP) group on Community-Engaged Learning (CEL). And from 2022–2023, she served as the President of the Parent Committee for the early childhood center Garderie Académie Création.

Dr. Ruglis consults with community members, organizations and their staff on matters of organizational, program, child, youth and policy development in health and education.

She is an active advocate for children and young people.

Policy

Dr. Ruglis served two terms as the Academic Representative of McGill University’s Joint Board Senate Committee on Equity (JBSCE, 2015–2021), and was a member of subcommittee on racialized and ethnic persons. Dr. Ruglis serves on the Faculty of Education Undergraduate Teacher Education Policy Committee (UTEPC), and recently completed her first term on the Faculty of Education Student Affairs Committee (2022–2025).

She has also served on the Faculty of Education’s Advisory Committee for Black Initiatives & Anti-Black Racism in Education, Faculty Council, and Hiring Committees. Ruglis previously served on McGill University’s Committee on Student Grievances (2018–2021), and Fellowship Committees for the SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarships – Doctoral (CGS D) Program. Along with faculty and departmental fellowship and award committees, Ruglis also served on the 2024–2025 SSHRC Insight Grants Selection Committee.

Other recent activities include serving on the McGill Association of University Teachers (MAUT) Consultation Committees for the McGill University Sexual Violence Policy and the McGill University Harassment and Discrimination Policy (2016-2017), which led to the development of McGill University’s first ever policy on sexual violence; and as an MAUT Council Member (2016-2018).

Dr. Ruglis provided written testimony to the Maryland State Legistlature, along with policy advocacy advisement and support to the chairing state Senator Nathan-Pulliam for a Maryland State Senate Bill SB 350 – Reconciliation and Equity – which passed into law in 2018 on development of a task force for racial and gender equity (2016–2018). In 2017, I served on the Ella Baker/Septima Clark Human Rights Award Committee for American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division B.

Editorial

Dr. Ruglis serves on the Editorial Board of Community Health Equity Research & Policy (CHERP) (2024–present), as Review Editor of the Editorial Board of Social Inclusion for Frontiers in Sustainable Cities (2019–present), and previously on the Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Global Education and Research (2017–2020), and the Editorial Board of Cogent Education (2016–2020).

Dr. Ruglis continues to serve as a peer reviewer for publishers and journals in interdisciplinary fields of her areas of expertise. Recently, these include: University of Toronto Press, Social Science & Medicine, Children & Society,  Journal of Participatory Medicine, Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, Teachers College Record, Educational Philosophy & Theory, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Journal of Adolescent Health, Journal of Urban Health, Progress in Community Health Partnerships, Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, International Journal of Integrated Care, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, and Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health.