Jeff Perera is a workshop facilitator for the White Ribbon Campaign, the world’s largest effort to engage men in ending violence against women as well as founded a chapter at Ryerson University working to further a gender-inclusive environment. Jeff also co-founded the Ryerson Black History Awareness Committee & annual Viola Desmond Day Awards celebrating strong Black/African…
African Canadian Heritage Association is a non-profit and community supported organization, which operates a curriculum-based heritage program for families with children from five – 16 years of age. The programs objectives are achieved by including the seven principles of Kwanzaa in all the activities and events. The children are taught about the history of African people…
My political obligations? I am a Black woman … in world that defines human as white and male for starters. Everything I do including survival is political.” ~Audre Lorde Kim Crosby is a daughter of the diaspora, Arawak, West African, Indian and Dutch, hailing from Trinidad and living currently in Toronto. A queer survivor, she…
The Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment (CAAT) is a coalition of more than 30 Ontario based organizations from the legal, health, settlement and HIV/AIDS sectors. It was formed in 1999 to improve treatment and service access for marginalized people with HIV/AIDS. Since its inception, CAAT has been at the forefront of education, research, service coordination and advocacy on issues…
Professor Patrick Solomon was one of the pioneers of the Urban Diversity Initiative at York’s Faculty of Education Solomon was engaged in equity, diversity and social justice works for most of his professional career as an elementary and secondary school teacher, school administrator and university professor. In 1991, he began working in York’s Faculty of…
Dr. Carl James, Director of the York Centre for Education and Community is cross-appointed with the graduate programs in the Department of Sociology and the School of Social Work. He worked as Graduate Program Director in Sociology and before that Affirmative Action Officer at York University. Carl James’ extensive background in youth work and community…
Donna Cardoza. For the past five years Donna Cardoza has been instrumental in developing and launching The Nubian Book Club. The goal of the book club is to use literacy as a tool by which students can become empowered to become community leaders and to improve student success and achievement among students of African Caribbean heritage. Donna is…
Nayani Thiyagarajah is an up and coming filmmaker of important documentaries such as Shadeism – a must watch short film that explores the issue of skin colour and discrimination within the African, Caribbean, and South Asian diasporas. The Ryerson University graduate is also an organizer and participant of T – DOT Renaissance – a Toronto event that…
Danielle Sandhu is the President of the University of Toronto Students’ Union, representing over 45,000 undergraduate students at the University of Toronto. As an organisation, the U.T.S.U. is committed to ensuring that post-secondary education is accessible to all; defending the individual and student rights of its members. Previously, Danielle served as the Union’s Vice-President Equity,…
Kimberley Tavares-Carter is currently a Course Director in the Faculty of Education at York University, seconded from the York Region District School Board, where she worked as a Department Head of English. As an educator with more than 10 years of experience, Kimberley is most proud of her work with marginalized and minoritized Black youth who…
