All posts tagged women of colour

Ceta Ramkhalawansingh

Posted on December 26, 2011 at 6:30pm by admin No Comment

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…

Angela Robertson

Posted on December 25, 2011 at 3:47am by admin No Comment

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…

Deena Ladd

Posted on December 18, 2011 at 5:09pm by admin No Comment

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 Go

Posted on December 17, 2011 at 2:41pm by admin No Comment

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…

Sherene Razack

Posted on December 15, 2011 at 12:23am by admin No Comment

  Sherene Razack is professor of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching interests lie in the area of race and gender issues in the law.  Her courses include ‘Race, Space and Citizenship;’ ‘Race and Knowledge Production’ and ‘Racial Violence…

Zanana Akande

Posted on December 13, 2011 at 8:10pm by admin No Comment

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…

Mary Ann Shadd

Posted on December 10, 2011 at 9:00pm by admin No Comment

 Mary Ann Shadd (1823-1893) was a nineteenth-century educator, integrationist, suffragist and abolitionist. ary is best known as the first black woman editor of a newspaper in North America. Mary opened the first integrated school in Canada and became the first female black lawyer in the United States. An advocate for the social and political integration of…