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.
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 […]
Dr. Praveen Naik Bellampalli is an Assistant Professor at PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore. He is a rural development scholar with expertise in Rural Studies, Tribal Studies, Migration, Livelihoods, and Rural Entrepreneurship. He holds a PhD in Rural Development from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), focusing on migration, agrarian distress, and livelihood […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]