Sheba Abena Wiafe is currently completing her PhD at York University in the Social and Political Thought Program. Her research focuses on investigating the migratory movements of African women to Europe against the histories of the trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic slave trade through Black critical theoretical and psychoanalytic approaches. Her written work is forthcoming with The […]
Britney Andrews is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Social Science at York University. Her research examines gendered and racialized experiences of state-sanctioned and interpersonal violence, with attention to the ways these experiences are complicated through various vectors of power and privilege. She is currently focusing on police violence, carcerality and approaches to addressing […]
Taylar Carty is a history PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow. Her research explores the lives and experiences of enslaved and apprenticed Black girls in Barbados from 1750-1838. She is passionate about education and museums and has worked as a consultant and curator at various heritage sites in the UK.
Norman Smith is a Master’s student in the Graduate Education Program. His current project through the lens, is a cultural critique on the subtleties of racism that exist within Canadian culture, that utilizes photographic elements to bring to the forefront the hidden truth of the social norms we hide behind. His goal for his research […]
Mohamed Ahmed Research Assistant for the Islamophobia Research Hub. He has over 10 years of hands-on experience in supporting refugee survivors of torture and gender-based violence His work emphasizes community mobilization against gender-based violence and economic empowerment, while critically engaging with issues of race, masculinity, and social justice to challenge oppressive norms and promote gender […]
Isabella Akaliza is a 3rd year PhD candidate in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies at York University. Her research examines the lived experiences of African sex workers, centring Audre Lorde’s theory of the erotic as a site of connection, relationality, and knowledge production. Engaging Black feminist thought and transnational feminist methodologies, her work challenges dominant […]
Damola holds a master’s degree in Intellectual Property and Competition Law from the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center in Germany, a specialized LL.M program jointly administered by the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Law, George Washington University, Technical University of Munich, and the University of Augsburg. Currently, Damola is pursuing his doctoral studies […]
Erragab Eljanhaoui is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences at Ibn Zohr University in Agadir, Morocco, and a Fulbright scholar at Salisbury University in Maryland, USA. Eljanhaoui’s focus includes Barbary captivity narratives, desert studies, postcolonialism, posthumanism, ecocriticism, and nomadism. With his background in comparative literature studies, he challenges how the […]
Daniel Richardson is a Ghanaian filmmaker and multimedia professional with over a decade of experience in television and video production. He is fascinated by the African story and narratives that have the potential to positively impact humanity. He holds a BFA in Film and Television Production from the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI), Ghana, […]
Yvette is a PhD student in Global Health at York University. Her research will assess the association between socioeconomic status, intersectionality and Tuberculosis treatment outcomes among people living with HIV in Rwanda. Yvette has a Masters in Global Health Delivery, Gender and Sexual Reproductive Health track from the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda […]