Claire recently graduated with a BFA in Art History from Concordia University in Montreal. She is currently pursuing her MISt in Library Sciences at McGill University in Montreal where she focuses on the overlapping of textiles and literature in different contexts. Her essays, published in Yiara, CUJAH, and other publications, speak mainly on identity and needlework. In her personal and academic life Claire draws on Jewish folk culture, Yiddish music, queerness, womanhood, and fashion history.