Camila Vélez is a psychotherapist and a PhD student in Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal), Canada. Her research invites young people to attune to, imagine, and creatively express futures of wellbeing—not as fixed destinations, but as ongoing, relational processes. In this orientation, wellbeing co-emerges through entanglement with other humans, more-than-human beings, technological entities, and the socio-materialities of place.

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She is co-developing a Radically Relational Futures Fellowship alongside her supervisors (Dr. Srividya Iyer and Dr. Gina Dimitropoulos), arts-based researchers, and lived experience experts. This initiative engages marginalized young people in exploring futures as relational and regenerative possibilities through creative and arts-based methods grounded in decolonial, feminist, and queer futurity. Arts-based methods include forum theatre, body mapping, music soundscapes, and speculative podcasting. Camila is particularly interested in how body mapping can support young people in expressing the affective, symbolic, embodied, and complex dimensions of entanglement, interconnection, care, and justice in a multispecies world.