Lorne Foster is a York University Research Chair in Black Canadian Studies and Human Rights and Professor in the School of Public Policy & Administration. His teaching and research interests include anti-Black racism in law enforcement; discrimination in public and social policy, policy reform, human rights, and social justice.
Lillian Allen is a Canadian Jamaican dub poet and reggae artist.
Leslie Sanders is a Professor in York University’s Department of Humanities. She works in African American and Black Canadian literatures and cultures, and literatures of the African diaspora.
Leslie Roach is an Ottawa-based lawyer and poet.
Leanne Taylor is an Associate Professor in Brock University’s Department of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies in Education. Her research interests include multiracial and multiethnic identities; immigrant aspirations; social justice and equity studies; transnational immigrant student aspirations; and critical theories of race and racism.
Lawrence Hill is a novelist, essayist and memoirist born in Newmarket, Ontario.
Kendra-Ann Pitt is an Assistant Professor at York University’s School of Social Work. Her work explores topics of social justice, mental health, critical disability studies, gender and development studies, and feminist theory.
Katherine McKittrick is a Professor at Queen’s University in the Department of Gender Studies and the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the links between epistemological narrative, creative text and liberation.
Karolyn Smardz-Frost is a historian and archaeologist, and an adjunct professor at Acadia and Dalhousie Universities, and was a Harrison McCain Visiting Professor at Acadia from 2013-2016.
Karena Vernon is Associate Professor and Associate Chair Department of English, University of Toronto. Her work focuses on Black Canadian literature, Black aesthetics, Black archives, and Black-Indigenous solidarities.