Dr. Kevin J. Hales is an internationally respected educator, public scholar, author, filmmaker, consultant, and podcaster. With an extensive academic background in communication studies and Africology, Dr. Hales offers a unique perspective on the lives of everyday African-descended people worldwide. Hales studies ethnicity (“race”), Africanity, social justice, rurality, intercultural communication, and nonverbal communication. Professor Hales […]
Dr. Karine Coen-Sanchez is an independent sociologist whose interdisciplinary research examines institutional governance, race, migration, identity, and public policy. She is the developer of Human Systems Mediation™, an original interdisciplinary framework that explains how governance systems, organizational cultures, and human experience interact to shape policy implementation and institutional outcomes. Her scholarship has also contributed conceptual […]
Dr. Oladotun Larry Anifowose is a Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial finance and time series econometrics/ post doctoral research fellow with over a decade of teaching, research, and academic leadership experience. My research focuses on financial inclusion, inclusive growth, public finance, and development economics, with particular emphasis on Sub-Saharan Africa, BRICS, and ECOWAS countries. I have […]
Dr. Shaurya Prakash is an Assistant Professor in the Programme of Social Work, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Assam down town University, Guwahati, Assam, where he has been serving since January 2026. He is a scholar and practitioner with expertise in occupational stress, burnout, women's welfare, community health, mental health, and social work […]
Sara Gallagher is a scholar of Black American literature and history, specializing in Black life in the Midwest and Western United States. She is the author of Black Wests, a study of Black settlement, cultural production, and regional identity in the American West. Her current research project, Unsettling the Heartland, examines Black migration, homesteading, and […]
I am an undergraduate student in Political Science at York University with research interests in international law, corporate governance, and global political economy. My work examines how legal and economic systems shape global inequalities, with a particular focus on the structural conditions that contribute to the underdevelopment of the Global South.
Nia Akilah Wilson (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Department of Humanities at York University. She is a research associate with the YRC II in Black Sonic Cultures. Nia earned her MA in Human Geography from University of Toronto. Her SSHRC CGS-M funded thesis focused on the experiences of Black women with anti-black surveillance […]
Dr. Magdaline Nkando is the Founder and Lead of Kujua Collective, an African-led platform advancing knowledge systems transformation and Learning Justice. Her work focuses on how knowledge is produced, governed, and applied within institutions, and how this shapes development outcomes. She is developing Learning Justice as an emerging governance methodology, alongside the Learning Justice Framework […]
Ayomide Yemi is a researcher and development practitioner working at the intersection of women’s economic empowerment, financial inclusion, and behavioral finance in low-income contexts. She is the Founder of Renbi Women Empowerment Initiative, a Nigeria-based organization focused on strengthening the sustainability of economic empowerment outcomes for last-mile women through community-based financial literacy and behavior change […]
Margaret Ofori Asubonteng is a Black African Human Resource Management student with interests in Black studies, labor, equity, law, student engagement, and community development. Her academic and leadership pursuits explore the intersection of Black lived experiences, institutional systems, social justice, and belonging within educational and professional spaces. She currently serves as an Upper-Year Student Engagement […]