Balam Nedim Kenter is a Phd candidate at Concordia University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, The Humanities PhD Program (HUMA), working in the areas of Critical Disability Studies, Critical Animal Studies, and Political Philosophy. Balam holds a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from Boğaziçi University where they explored the concepts of exploitation and oppression through disability. In their dissertation work, they seek to continue this line of research particularly focusing on the intersections of ableism and anthropocentrism under late capitalism.