Marie-Christine Williams-Plouffe (she/her) is the coordinator of the Canada Research Chair in Third-Party Reproduction and Family Ties and a doctoral student in Family Sciences at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) under the supervision of Isabel Côté and Alana Cattapan. She also holds a Master and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from the same university. Her research interests focus on third-party reproduction, family diversity and the realities of LGBTQIA2S+ communities. Her master’s thesis, Raconte-moi ta famille : récits familiaux d’enfants québécois·es et français·es de pères gais né·es d’une grossesse pour autrui (Tell Me About Your Family: Family Stories of Quebec and French Children of Gay Fathers Born Through Surrogacy) sheds light on how children of gay fathers born through surrogacy view their relationship with the woman who carried them, articulate family ties in this context, and navigate heteronormativity. As part of her doctoral thesis, Marie-Christine is interested in children born through embryo donation. She works and has collaborated on the following research projects; the Intergenerational Ties Through the Lens of Third-Party Reproduction project, the STORIES (Self, Transmission, Origins, Representations, and Identity among Donor-Conceived Teenagers and their Families) project, the DRIFTS project, the My Mother’s Surrogacy project, and the Adoption Project. She is also working on a podcast that is part of the Research Chair’s programming.
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