Jade Ferguson is an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph’s School of English and Theatre Studies. Her work and research interests include Civil Rights photography and literature, critical race theory, and 19th to mid-20th Century Canadian literature.
Isaac Saney is the Director of Dalhousie University’s Transition Year Program in the Faculty of Open Learning and Career Development. His research and teaching include African Studies, Cuba, the Caribbean and Black Canadian history.
Idil Abdillahi is a critical Black interdisciplinary scholar, policy analyst, community organizer, researcher, and educator. She is an Assistant Professor at Ryerson University’s School of Disability Studies and School of Social Work. She is also the Advisor to the Dean on Anti-Black Racism for the Faculty of Community and Social Services.
Ian Williams is a poet and novelist based in Ontario.
Hyacinth Simpson is an Associate Professor in Ryerson University’s Department of English. Her areas of research include Caribbean, postcolonial, and diaspora studies, migration, immigration, identity, and non-western literatures.
Honor Ford-Smith is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. Her academic interests include race, gender, colonialism and post colonialism; Caribbean societies and diasporas; performance and social movements; and community and environmental arts and education.
Harvey Amani Whitfield is a professor of United States and Canadian History at the University of Calgary.
Handel K. Wright is a Professor at the University of British Columbia’s Department of Educational Studies and Director of the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education. His research interests include cultural studies of education; postcolonialism and diaspora; identity in youth, Africana and the politics of difference; and multiculturalism.
Gertrude Mianda is an Associate Professor in York University’s School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies and director of the Harriet Tubman Institute. Her areas of research include sociology; gender and post colonialism in Africa; development and globalization; women; and gender.
George J. Sefa Dei is a Professor at the University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education’s Department of Social Justice Education. His teaching and research interests include development education, Indigenous knowledges, anti-racism education, and anti-colonial thought.