Hana Holubec is a PhD candidate at York University in the Science and Technology Studies program where she studies the technoscientific production of laughter in human and non-human relationships. She has over 10 years of experience working in comedy and performance, and as an arts-based instructor within the disability community, with those living with addiction and mental health issues, and with groups and individuals in bereavement and hospice care. She has a dog named Turtle.