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 […]
Adia Giddings (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Department of History at York University. She received her Master's in History at Concordia University. Her MA research focused on the labour and immigration activism of the Household Workers' Association of Montreal. She specifically focused on the labour organizing of Caribbean household workers and the support […]
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 […]
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. Muna-Udbi A. Ali (she/they) is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Environment and Urban Change (EUC), specializing in Black Studies in Geography and Environment, at York University in Toronto, Canada. Before joining the faculty of EUC, Ali worked as an Assistant Professor at California State University San Marcos, and as a Visiting Faculty […]
Gallous Atabongwoung holds a PhD in Anthropology Development Studies from University of Pretoria. He was a research assistant at Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, University of South Africa (UNISA), Visiting Scholar at Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. His research interests include; Anthropology and Development Studies, African and European Cultural Relations, International Migration, Xenophobia, Informal […]
Borauzima Feza Esther is a Congolese researcher and lecturer, holding a Master’s degree in Political science from the Université Officielle de Bukavu and a Master’s degree in Gender Studies from the Université Catholique de Louvain. She is currently pursuing a doctoral program at the University of Mons within the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, […]
Amanda Nkeramihigo is a scholar and theorist whose work bridges historical and critical psychology, Afrofuturism, and decolonial frameworks to explore Black subjectivity, epistemic justice, and liberation. She will be continuing at the PhD level at York University, in the Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies in Psychology in the summer of 2026. Amanda’s research interrogates the […]