Gary Pieters is a school administrator with the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) with over 15 years of experience in the educational sector. He served as an elementary school teacher prior to becoming a school administrator. He is currently in his 7th year as an elementary school vice-principal in the TDSB. Gary sees his leadership role…
Ceta Ramkhalawansingh is the volunteer President of the Learnxs Foundation, National Chair, The Word on the Street Canada, Honorary President, Grange Community Association and also serves on the board of the Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care. At the University of Toronto, Ceta is a principal’s appointee to the Innis College Council, serves on New…
Alok Mukherjee has been Chair of the Toronto Police Services Board since September 2005. He is the first South Asian to occupy this position. As a Vice President of the Ontario Association of Police Boards and Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Association of Police Boards, Dr. Mukherjee is actively involved in efforts to promote community-based policing…
Angela Robertson has spent her life helping other women. Currently the Director of Equity and Community Engagement at Women’s College Hospital, she has been an active member and leader of the Black and women’s communities, helping implement various programs to help support those in need. As the previous Executive Director of Sistering – A Woman’s…
Rinaldo Walcott is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education. His research and teaching is in the area of Black Diaspora Cultural Studies with an emphasis on queer sexualities, masculinity and cultural politics. A secondary research area is multicultural and transnational debates with an emphasis on nation, citizenship…
Professor Izumi Sakamoto is a former Fulbright Scholar, a Michigan Society of Fellows Associate Fellow, and a “Community of Scholars” Fellow of the Institute of Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. Dr. Sakamoto’s training and practice span North America and Japan, and she brings interdisciplinary perspectives from social work, social psychology, and cultural psychology. Dr. Sakamoto’s current program of research…
Deena Ladd has been working to improve the working conditions for immigrants, racialized communities and low-wage earners for almost 20 years. These workers are often women who are the most marginalised and vulnerable. She has been successful in establishing partnerships and linkages to shine a light on exploitation and discrimination. She has developed and taught courses,…
Avvy Yao-Yao Go is the current Clinic Director of Metro Toronto Chinese & Southeast Asian Legal Clinic. Using her law degree to help Toronto’s marginalized racial communities has been a lifelong career passion for Avvy Go. Her commitment to social justice began in law school with volunteer work at Downtown Legal Services. It was there that she…
anana has had an outstanding career as a teacher and administrator in all levels of education, and as a lecturer in university. As a consultant, she designed and coordinated programs for pupils with special needs, including gifted students and immigrant children to the Canadian system. As a principal, she was been responsible for the redirection…
Institutional or structural racism, defined as the social, economic, educational, and political forces or policies that operate to foster discriminatory outcomes or give preferences to members of one group over others, derives its genesis from the origins of race as a concept. Race as a biological fact has been invalidated by biologists and geneticists, but…
