Letitia Henville

When the twenty-­third Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences came to Vancouver in June 2019, Melanie Doucet sat behind a CBC Radio microphone and gave the standing-­room-­only crowd her Twitter handle — it’s @MelanieMDoucet — and then rejected the label of “influencer.” Doucet’s a Trudeau Scholar — a recognition given to only a handful of Canadian PhD students each year — and a doctoral candidate in social work at McGill.* She was also a finalist in this year’s federally sponsored storytelling…