Tokunbo Ojo

Tokunbo Ojo is an associate professor in Communication & Media Studies at York University. His research interests are in international communication, global media industries, and journalism studies.

Tiffany Lethabo King

Tiffany Lethabo King is an associate professor in the African-American Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Departments at Georgia State University. Her research focuses on the intersectionality of slavery and indigenous genocide in the Americas.

Tessa McWatt

Tessa McWatt is a Guyanese Canadian novelist now living in the UK.

Tamari Kitossa

Tamari Kitossa is an Associate Professor in Brock University’s Department of Sociology. His areas of research include, Black masculinities, anti-Blackness, anti-criminology, and counter-colonial criminology.

Sylvia Hamilton

Sylvia Hamilton is a Nova Scotian poet and filmmaker who has won several awards for her publications and films. Her work explores feminism, Black Canadian experiences, family, and community.

Sylvia Bawa

Sylvia Bawa is an Associate Professor in York University’s Department of Sociology. Her research and teaching interests include globalization, postcolonial and transnational feminisms, human rights, critical development theory and women’s rights.

Simone Browne

Simone Browne is an associate professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching focus on critical surveillance and race.

Sharon Beckford-Foster

Sharon Beckford-Foster is an associate professor in the Department of Africana and American Studies at the University at Buffalo.

Shamette Hepburn

Shamette Hepburn is an Assistant Professor in York University’s School of Social Work. Her research includes postcolonial and transnational social work; critical gerontology; and community based/participatory research.

Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu

Saje Mathieu is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota and a Faculty Fellow at the Warren Centre for Studies in American History at Harvard University. Mathieu specializes in twentieth century American and African American history, with a focus on immigration, globalization, race, war, and political resistance.