Paula Bath is a student in the Social and Cultural analysis Ph.D. program in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Concordia University. Paula holds an M.A. degree in Communications and a B.A. honours degree in Organizational Communications from the University of Ottawa. Her early research investigated the hegemonic representations of Deaf identity published in discourses printed mainstream newspapers and the resistance to these representations by leaders in the Deaf community in Canada.

Paula began her career in the communications industry as a sign language interpreter. Paula worked for 17 years, later specializing in discourse analysis with the federal government and worked collaboratively to develop practices and quality standards for several communication strategies that combined English, français, American Sign Language and langue de signes québécoise. In 2017, Paula focused her work in federal communications policy development in the broadcasting and telecommunications industries and currently works as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission.

Paula is proud to be a founding member of SPiLL.PROpagation, an Artist Center for Creation and Production in Sign Language in Canada where Paula works to bring people into communication though the organizations three main artistic activities: Creation, Collaborative Production, and Research-Creation. ​