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Clifton Grant

Clifton GrantUndergraduate Student*3rd or 4th Year Law & Society Major*Completing a Certificate in Black Canadian Studies*Committee Member of : LAPS Black Advocacy and InclusionRISE (Race Inclusion and SupportiveEnvironments)Vice-President of York BFL (Black Future Lawyers)Active Bystander Facilitator for the CENTER at York Research Interests: The historical and contemporary overrepresentation of the African diaspora and Indigenous communities […]

Bianca Beauchemin

Bianca Beauchemin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University. She recently was the 2022-2023 recipient of the postdoctoral fellowship in Black Feminist Thought at Queen’s University. She was also awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) doctoral fellowship while completing her PhD at the […]

Mohamed Sesay

Dr. Mohamed Sesay (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science and Coordinator of the African Studies Program at York University. He is also a member of the UKRI GCRF Gender Justice and Security Hub hosted by the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security. Mohamed Sesay graduated from McGill University with a […]

Ruth Rodney

Dr. Ruth Rodney is a mother, registered nurse, and Assistant Professor at York University’s School of Nursing where she teaches global health, women’s health, and theoretical approaches to nursing science.  She entered the academic and research field with 15 years of frontline nursing experience in a number of clinical areas in Canada and globally. Her research focuses on […]

Sharon Henry

Sharon Henry is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at York University.Sharon is a long-standing graduate member of Race Inclusion and Supportive Environments (RISE); an executive graduate caucus member of the Harriet Tubman Institute (HTI); a graduate representative at Center for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC); a graduate representative on […]

Omosalewa O. Olawoye

Salewa is an Associate Professor in the Business and Society Program of the Department of Social Science at York University. She is the current Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and Its Diasporas at York University, Canada. She has a PhD in Economics and Social Science Consortium (University of Missouri – Kansas City, 2016). Her research focuses on heterodox approaches to […]

Henry Gomez

Henry Gomez is an educator, who was formerly employed by the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) as a high school teacher; and was nominated for a Teacher- of-The-Year award. He specialized in English Literature, Media Studies and Drama. He holds an MFA in Theatre and a BA in English from York University and obtained his […]

Agnès Berthelot-Raffard

Dr. Agnès Berthelot-Raffard is an Assistant Professor in the Critical Disability Studies graduate program in the School of Health Policy and Management at York University.Her works focus on Black Health Studies/Black Disability Studies. She analyses the impact of racism and racialization on all dimensions of health and well-being. She also tries to examine the consequences of epistemic […]

Agnès Berthelot-Raffard

Dr Agnès Berthelot-Raffard is an assistant professor in the School of Health Policy & Management at York University. She is a political philosopher who earned her PhD in Philosophy from Pantheon-Sorbonne and Université de Montréal. Her research expertise is Black Health studies, Black political thought, Black feminist thought, and Black Disability Studies. She is interested […]

Rose Ndengue

Cameroonian scholar-activist, Rose Ndengue is a historian socio-politician who defines herself as a black feminist from the transatlantic space, straddling Africa, Europe and the Americas.She is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Glendon, York University, where she is developing a teaching program in African Studies that includes black feminist perspectives, from postcolonial […]